What if we don't die? : the morality of immortality /: the morality of immortality. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- What if we don't die? : the morality of immortality /: the morality of immortality. (2015)
- Main Title:
- What if we don't die? : the morality of immortality
- 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.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. … (more)
- 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:
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