What if we don't die? : the morality of immortality /: the morality of immortality. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Hulsroj.
• Authors: Hulsroj, Peter
• Other Names: Praxis Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 170; Philosophy; Life and death, Power over; Immortalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- Social; Life and death, Power over; Philosophy; Ethics; Sociology of Culture; Philosophy of Mind; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Evolutionary Biology; Social Science -- Sociology of Religion; Philosophy -- Mind & Body; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Life Sciences -- Evolution; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Philosophy of mind; Theoretical & mathematical astronomy; Evolution; Ethics; Philosophy of mind; Astronomy; Evolution (Biology); Ethics & moral philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319190938; 3319190938; 9783319190921
• Related ISBNs: 331919092X; 9783319190921
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 14, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.