Immortality and Boredom

In this paper, we aim to clarify and evaluate the contention that immortality would be necessarily boring (the Necessary Boredom Thesis). It will emerge that, just as there are various importantly different kinds of immortality, there are various distinct kinds of boredom. To evaluate the Necessary...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of ethics 2014-12, Vol.18 (4), p.353-372
Hauptverfasser: Fischer, John Martin, Mitchell-Yellin, Benjamin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper, we aim to clarify and evaluate the contention that immortality would be necessarily boring (the Necessary Boredom Thesis). It will emerge that, just as there are various importantly different kinds of immortality, there are various distinct kinds of boredom. To evaluate the Necessary Boredom Thesis, we need to specify the kind of immortality and the kind of boredom. We argue against the thesis, on various specifications of "immortality" and "boredom."
ISSN:1382-4554
1572-8609
DOI:10.1007/s10892-014-9172-3