| Description |
1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Series |
Little Debates about Big Questions Series |
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Little Debates about Big Questions Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1: Opening Statements -- Chapter 1: Why You Should Not Choose to Live Forever -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Living Long, Living Longer, Living Forever -- 2.1 How Long Is Forever? Four Categories -- 2.1.1 Moderate Life Extension -- 2.1.2 Radical Life Extension -- 2.1.3 Contingent Immortality -- 2.1.4 True Immortality -- 2.2 What Do We Mean by Living On? The Identity Criterion -- 2.3 What Do We Mean by 'Should'? The Prudential and Ethical Criteria -- 2.4 Why the Question Matters |
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3 Prudence: Would Living Forever be Right for Me? -- 3.1 Boredom -- 3.2 Ennui -- 3.3 Meaninglessness -- 3.4 Procrastination -- 3.5 Weighing the Prudential Arguments -- 4 Ethics: Would It be Right for Society for People to Live Forever? -- 4.1 Overpopulation -- 4.2 Social Justice -- 5 Preliminary Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Why You Should Choose to Live Forever -- 1 Introduction: The Human Desire to Live Forever -- 1.1 Legends and Stories -- 1.2 A Thought-Experiment -- 2 What Kind of 'Immortality' Do We Want? -- 2.1 Living -- 2.2 Forever: True Immortality vs. Radical Life Extension |
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2.3 Radical Life Extension Under Favorable Circumstances -- 3 The 'Forever' Wars and the Rejection of Immortality -- 3.1 Apologist Legends and Stories -- 3.2 Objections to Living Forever: Preview and Teaser -- 4 It Wouldn't Be Me -- 4.1 The Self Constructed from Memories -- 4.2 The Basic Self as Subject of Experiences -- 5 Motivation and Values -- 5.1 Why Get Off the Couch? -- 5.2 Our Value Framework -- 6 Stories and Stages -- 6.1 Our Lives Correspond to Narratives -- 6.2 Our Lives Have Stages -- 7 Would an Immortal Life Necessarily Be Boring? -- 7.1 What Is Boredom? |
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7.2 The Circumstances of Boredom -- 7.3 Bernard Williams: Chairman of the Bored -- 7.4 Initial Replies to Williams -- 7.5 Repetition and Boredom -- 7.5.1 Would Pleasures and Agreeable Experiences Go Away? -- 7.5.2 Would Projects Go Away? -- 7.5.3 Tourists in Life or Being Here Now -- 8 Summary: The Last Words (for Now!) -- Part 2: First Round of Replies -- Chapter 3: Reply to John Martin Fischer -- 1 The Fear of Death and the Desire to Live Forever -- 2 Rationality, Favourable Circumstances, and the Exit Clause -- 2.1 The Question of Favourable Conditions -- 2.2 The Exit Clause |
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3 The Procrastination Problem and the Relevance of Present Feelings -- 4 Boredom and Extractive versus Immersive Views of Life -- 5 Life Stages and Adaptation to Longer Lives -- 5.1 Have We Recently Adapted to Much Longer Lives? -- 5.2 Life Stages, Finitude, and Being Human -- 5.3 Life Stages and Society -- 6 Summary -- Chapter 4: Reply to Stephen Cave -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Prudential Reasons Not to Choose Radical Life Extension -- 2.1 Boredom -- 2.2 Ennui -- 2.3 Four Points from Borges -- 2.3.1 Points (1) and (2): The Significance of Projects. -- 2.3.2 Point (3): Identity |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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2.3.3 Point (4): Virtue and Vice |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer, John Martin
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| ISBN |
9781000986853 |
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1000986853 |
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