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What If We Don't Die? : The Morality of Immortality / / by Peter Hulsroj



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Autore: Hulsroj Peter Visualizza persona
Titolo: What If We Don't Die? : The Morality of Immortality / / by Peter Hulsroj Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Copernicus, , 2015
Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina: 100
Soggetto topico: Ethics
Culture
Philosophy of mind
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Evolutionary biology
Sociology of Culture
Philosophy of Mind
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Evolutionary Biology
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- 1. Immortality again? -- 2. Is that really a question? -- 3. Choices, choices -- 4. What is eternity? -- 5. The timeless and the ageless -- 6. Time and existence -- 7. Pantheism and spirit as substance -- 8. Communitarian happiness -- 9. Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas.- 10. Immortality through parallel universes -- 11. Death of compassion? -- 12. Identity and infinity -- 13. God, spacetime and the mathematical universe -- 14. Winston decides not to die! -- 15. God is and is not -- 16. Linear and non-linear logic -- 17. What is immortality? -- 18. Is anything forever existing? -- 19. The limits of you! -- 20. The mind/body problem resolved? -- 21. So why we were not created immortal? -- 22. Loss and value -- 23. Ego, Todestrieb and immortality -- 24. Why immortality is death -- 25. Why seize the day? -- 26. Are the gods immortal? -- 27. Immortality of the devil -- 28. The immortality of not being born -- 29. Oh, Jerusalem! -- 30. In the twilight zone between death and immortality -- 31. Movement and immortality -- 32. So, what is so horrible about death? -- 33. Lust for life, or fear of non-existence? -- 34. Immortality and intergenerational justice -- 35. A return to immediacy? -- 36. Personal relativity and time -- 37. A world of immortals -- 38. Natural selection and immortality -- 39. The tragedy of the longest life! -- 40. Choosing life! -- 41. Humans and humankind -- 42. Immortality for humanity, Darwin for everybody else? -- 43. Gaia and dystopia -- 44. Beyond the limits of rationality -- 45. Longer life or immortality? -- 46. Birth undone -- 47. The medicated good death -- 48. Death elective -- 49. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed -- 50.  So …. -- 51. An afterthought – the fifth dimension.
Sommario/riassunto: This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality, and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether it is desirable. The book looks at what makes immortality appear so attractive, and at the possibility that we would be better served with longer lives and the freedom to terminate our lives at the time when life has given us all the joy, inspiration and personal development it possibly could.  What If We Don’t Die? -   Presents major moral dilemmas associated with human immortality, something which seems imminent due to rapidly progressing biomedical research. -  Touches on big questions: is it acceptable that the immortal generation will be the last? How much life do you want? What is the purpose of life if life never ends? -  Will trigger your imagination by putting a new spin on free will, current concepts of time and eternity, the possibility of multiple universes and multiple yous.  What If We Don’t Die?  draws extensively on philosophical and religious thought on the purpose of life and introduces novel perspectives on existence, personality and immortality based, for instance, on quantum mechanics and multiverse theory.
Titolo autorizzato: What If We Don't Die  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-319-19093-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910485032403321
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Serie: Popular Science, . 2626-6113