For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties - we are born, reproduce sexually, and die.

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Beverley Clack is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University. She is also the author of The Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction (Polity, 1998), with Brian R. Clack.

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Acknowledgments. Introduction.

Chapter 1: Transcending Mortality: Plato's Philosophy and Augustine's Theology.

Chapter 2: Transcending the Void: Sex and Death in Sartre and Beauvoir's Existentialism.

Chapter 3: Eros, Thanatos and the Human Self: Sigmund Freud.

Chapter 4 : Sex and Death in a Meaningless Universe: The Marquis de Sade.

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Chapter 5: Living in Accordance with Nature: Seneca.

Conclusion: Sex, Death, and the Meaningful Life.

Notes.

References and Bibliography.

Index.