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Immortality: Philosophy & the Human Desire to Live Forever
Immortality in philosophy: Bernard Williams on the tedium of eternal life, Nagel on the value of survival, Plato on the soul's immortality, and the metaphysics of living forever.
Immortality is the thought experiment at the edge of the philosophy of death. Would living forever be a gift or a curse? Would an endless life be meaningful, or would it collapse into tedium? The answers reveal what we think death does for life.
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