Questions tagged [immortality]
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Are there any refutations to the Generic subjective continuity theory?
The Generic subjective continuity theory is a horrifying one, considering it would entail that we shall experience every concious experience including the worst of tortures ie, burning alive, etc. Are ...
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Does quantum immortality mean solipsism?
If when we die another universe is created in which we live, then would the people of that universe be real?( by that i mean conscious beings like myself) or am I misunderstanding QI?
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What to make of "time" and "time rightly spent" in the context of "the purpose of life"?
Friedrich Nietzsche in his Thus spoke Zarathustra told us a man should become a "overman" or "ubermensch" i.e. someone who believes in nihilism of universe (believing that life has ...
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Is Death a Feature or a Bug? [closed]
Ancient records show that humans have been preoccupied by Thanatos (death) - strong evidence of this is found in how religious we were/are (the majority subscribe to a few religions with promise of an ...
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Is it ethical to impose ethical values on others? [closed]
The question is motivated by reading the discussions on veganism:
Is 'veganism' a settled issue in Philosophy and Ethics?
Why is it okay to eat meat but not to be cruel to animals?
While these threads ...
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Is this spreading a lie considered lying?
So if person A is fed false information by person B, and person A goes on to tell this information to person C in the best way possible in the exact way they heard it are they lying? Person A would be ...
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Which Philosophers talk about the Future. the technologies beyond AI and John Searle?
I like philosophy since long time ago I know a little about Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Leibniz. I like his work but there is a topic that I am really ...
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If time is subjective but unchanging, how are we not immortal?
This is probably my longest-lasting point of confusion re: Kant. True, he diagnoses the paralogism very well; but if time is unchanging, inherent in our subjectivity, and in that as constitutive of ...
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Do HeLa cells prove immortality?
Does modern science, especially HeLa cells, prove that immortality (in the classic sense) is real (for these cells) or possible in the future?
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Is this general argument against immortality valid?
I found the following argument here (although the paper is about a different topic):
A General Argument Against Immortality:
The method of Theory Confirmation can be applied to the question of ...
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Is it less immoral to lie to the less intelligent (moral deceptionism)?
According to Hugo Grotius, it is not immoral to lie to someone who does not possess "the right to exercise liberty of judgment". He then proceeded to give two examples: (i) you cannot lie to a madman (...
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A question on Gorman's interpretations of William's argument against the desirability of immortality
This is a much more specific question than my previous version.
In Williams and the Desirability of Body-Bound Immortality Revisited, Gorman says,
In one sense it seems there are an infinite ...
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Fear of death is prior feature of human T or F
A group of people have the fear of death, another group of people do not, the group of people that do not have fear of death believe the consequence is to go to heaven. Part of the first group think ...
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William's argument against the desirability of immortality [closed]
Bernard Williams has argued that immortality would not be desirable, because the desires that drive us in life would eventually grow old.
However, there are objections. Here are various objections I ...
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What are arguments against the option of immortality?
I have discussed on various occasions the possibility of human immortality with people. Most of the time people thought it would be a bad idea without giving specific reasons but relying on their ...
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If life is absurd, is immortality desirable?
If life lacks any meaning and we react in the way Camus wants us to then we can focus on other things and personal human projects. Does this mean that immortality becomes desirable?
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Can philosophy say that these precepts are wrong?
If we take the ambiguous nature[1] (in its current form) of the sixth commandment...
Thou shalt not kill
...we must remember that Jesus instructed his followers to forgive[2], that none are ...
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Have any philosophers put forth phenomenological arguments for immortality besides Husserl?
For reference, here's a link to Paul MacDonald's 2007 paper on Husserl and immortality:
http://www.ipjp.org/online-issues/send/30-edition-2-september-2007/119-paulmacdonald7e2
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What are the implications of eternal life
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What would be the consequences of transferring the consciousness of a middle-aged person to a mechanical object or device (such as a robot), as opposed to another biological body?
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What are the objections to the Affinity Argument in the Phaedo?
The Phaedo proposes four arguments for the immortality of the soul. The third of these is the Affinity Argument, and goes something like this:
There are two kinds of existences: (a) the visible world ...
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What is Aquinas' argument for humans having a nature desire to live forever?
In the Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas presents many arguments for the immortality of the soul. Here is one of them:
[13] A further argument. It is impossible for natural desire to be in ...
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How would ethics or moral science be different if (human) life were eternal?
I admit that my question is quite useless in terms of practical philosophy or ethics, but I came to wonder how ethics will be changed if the life of human beings or further, the life of every ...
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Is death impossible because it is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious? [closed]
I looked at a site called The Truth Contest which is a compliation of what "The ultimate truth" is. One of the ideas explored is immortality. Here is an excerpt:
You are immortal; it is impossible ...
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About the beliefs of those who believe in no after life [closed]
Do people who believe in only a finite existence and that there is no type of 'after life' ; do they think this is an absolute certainty ? If one is extremely certain about this being a 'finite ...
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The man who wants to die
This is a phrase I stumbled across in Deleuze work on Nietzsche, but I don't know of where it appears in the latter's work.
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the distinction between the last man and the man who wants to die ...
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Has the question of after-life been discussed in philosophy? [closed]
There are a lot of debates and arguments about religions without mentioning the possibility of the 'survival of one's mind and personality'. Wouldn't it be great if there were more debates about ...
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