PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Thomas Nagel, Thought Experiment, Lucretius
25 Aug 2016
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Bernard williams (1973), the makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality . Our lives would eventually become intolerable and meaningless if we were immortal. All things being equal, it would be better to live than to die (all things being equal is the important phrase) Maybe there is something wrong with the story of e. m. , maybe with her psychology or with her environmental conditions: don"t criticize for doing a thought experiment; it is legitimate. Williams, it is going to be better to die than to live eternally a human life : everlastingly is a better word, apparently (a human life inside space and time than a human outside space and time) He then points out that in those religious/philosophical systems that have reincarnation, they all look forward to the point where there is no more reincarnation (nirvana in. Buddhism, eternal life in the world of forms for plato. Life wouldn"t seem like it belonged to you.
