Death and the Afterlife
(Sprache: Englisch)
We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone.
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We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone.
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Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would scientists still search for a cure for cancer? Would couples still want children?In Death and the Afterlife, philosopher Samuel Scheffler poses this thought experiment in order to show that the continued life of the human race after our deaths--the "afterlife" of the title--matters to us to an astonishing and previously neglected degree. Indeed, Scheffler shows that, in certain important respects, the future existence of people who are as yet unborn matters more to us than our own continued existence and the continued existence of those we love. Without the expectation that humanity has a future, many of the things that now matter to us would cease to do so. By contrast, the prospect of our own deaths does little to undermine our confidence in the value of our activities. Despite the terror we may feel when contemplating our deaths, the prospect of humanity's imminent extinction would pose a far greater threat to our ability to lead lives of wholehearted engagement. Scheffler further demonstrates that, although we are not unreasonable to fear death, personal immortality, like the imminent extinction of humanity, would also undermine our confidence in the values we hold dear. His arresting conclusion is that, in order for us to lead value-laden lives, what is necessary is that we ourselves should die and that others should live.
Death and the Afterlife concludes with commentary by four distinguished philosophers--Harry Frankfurt, Niko Kolodny, Seana Shiffrin, and Susan Wolf--who discuss Scheffler's ideas with insight and imagination. Scheffler adds a final reply.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Death and the Afterlife “
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Samuel Scheffler
- Introduction
- Niko Kolodny
- Death and the Afterlife
- Samuel Scheffler
- Lecture One: The Afterlife (Part I)
- Lecture Two: The Afterlife (Part II)
- Lecture Three: Fear, Death, and Confidence
- Comments and Replies
- The Significance of Doomsday
- Susan Wolf
- How the Afterlife Matters
- Harry G. Frankfurt
- Preserving the Valued or Preserving Valuing?
- Seana Valentine Shiffrin
- That I Should Die and Others Live
- Niko Kolodny
- Death, Value, and the Afterlife: Responses
- Samuel Scheffler
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Samuel Scheffler
Samuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, and Equality and Tradition. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, he delivered the prestigious Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley, on which this book is based.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Samuel Scheffler
- 2016, 224 Seiten, Maße: 14,5 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Niko Kolodny
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019046917X
- ISBN-13: 9780190469177
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2016
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Englisch
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...combined with Scheffler's eminently readable (and often humourous!) prose style, and the insightful and provocative exchanges that he has with his similarly-distinguished interlocutors, propels Death and the Afterlife into that rare class of philosophical books that are both valuable and enjoyable." Analysis
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