Value and Meaning of Life stories The second half of the

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Value and Meaning of Life stories The second half of theIn this book Christopher Belshaw draws on earlier work concerning death, identity, animals, immortality, and extinction, and builds a large scale argument dealing with questions of both value and meaning. Rejecting suggestions that life is sacred or intrinsically valuable, he argues instead that its value varies, and varies considerably, both within and between different kinds of things. So in some cases we might have reason to improve or save a life,