Richard Greene,K. Silem Mohammad

Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy

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Since 1968's Night of the Living Dead, zombie culture has steadily limped and clawed its way into the center of popular culture. Today, zombies and vampires have taken over TV shows, comic books, cartoons, video games, and movies. Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy drags the theories of famous philosophers like Socrates and Descartes into the territory of the undead, exploring questions like: Why do vampires and vegetarians share a similar worldview? Why is understanding zombies the key to health care reform? And what does “healthy in mind and body” mean for vampires and zombies? Answers to these questions and more await readers brave enough to make this fun, philosophical foray into the undead.
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399 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
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  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Death is bad, on this view, because it is a state that involves unfulfilled desires that have not been cancelled or replaced. Undeath, on the other hand, is a state in which one’s desires have been replaced. A desire for scotch has been replaced with a desire for blood. A desire for pork roast has been replaced by a desire for raw human flesh. So Undeath does not lead to desire-frustration; rather, it leads to changed desire, which, as we’ve seen, is not necessarily a bad thing
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    So life is preferable to death, because when one is alive, one’s desires can be satisfied, but when one is dead, one’s desires are necessarily thwarted. Of course, if one desires death, then this argument doesn’t work, but, in such cases, it’s not clear that death is a bad thing. Typically people don’t desire death, unless life is bad (or at minimum, life seems bad).
  • Laura Sánchezhas quoted4 years ago
    Undeath is bad because one misses out on whatever rewards one has coming in the afterlife

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