It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read The Value and Meaning of Life by Christopher Belshaw
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 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, while in others that reason will be lacking. What about starting lives? The book’s central section takes this as its focus, and asks whether we...
The Value and Meaning of Life by Christopher Belshaw is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read The Value and Meaning of Life aloud.
The Value and Meaning of Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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