Phil1750-100 Immortality‚ desirable or not? In “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality”‚ Bernard Williams argues that immortality is undesirable because one would achieve one’s categorical desires which will cause one to become bored and find immortality undesirable. In this paper‚ I will argue that this argument fails because if one lives a recognizably human life‚ they will experience memory decay thus allowing them to repeat the same categorical desires without becoming
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Fertility (Births)‚ Mortality (Deaths)‚ Migration. High Ranking Country: Monaco has a very low unemployment rate at a little over 6%. People who can work‚ can afford to eat healthier and can seek medical treatment when sick. This counties AIDS/HIV rate doesn’t even exist. That says a lot for the people’s longer life span. Plus these people eat a lot of fruit and spicy foods. En bon santé!! In 2011‚ the fertility rate in Monaco was 1.5 children per woman. The value for their mortality rate was under
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The movie that we watched was about reviving a person from the dead. This is said to be done in the future but they had already started researching how to use ice as a power to revive a clinically dead person. They used ice as a method to preserve a body and now they are planning on how to revive a person through the use of nanotechnology that can repair all the cells that were ruptured n the freezing process. The technology that they were referring in the movie is called Cryonics. This Cryonics
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The Mortality Doctrine The book‚ The Rule Of Thoughts was an amazing book. It was written by one of my favorite authors James Dashner. Dashner grew up in Austell‚ Georgia where he was one of six children in his family. He later went to Utah for college at Brigham Young University and started writing books that were for young teens. His books typically had the adventure‚ survival‚ and science-fiction genres. He then proceeded to write The Maze Runner which was one of his most famous books. So today
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Whitman & Dickinson-Nature Death & Immortality Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman were both poets of the nineteenth century that both captured their readers by their unique style of writing. Dickinson grew up in a wealthy family where her father and grandfather were lawyers. Although they were very outspoken‚ she was very introverted and put words to paper. Her lifestyle led to her writing poetry‚ in letters to friends‚ cards sent to loved ones but none of her work was seen by the world
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The question of mortality has been faced throughout cultures over many millennium. Pieces of art‚ literature‚ as well as music all represent this question and in order to face this question individuals believe in specific occurrences‚ purposes‚ or even religion. This question can be observed in the first known book made in human history called The Epic of Gilgamesh. The question can be observed throughout the story in its characters and the character personalities as well as actions. The introduction
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Patrick McCleery Essay I: Lucretius and Plato on the Mortality of the Soul In this essay it will be argued that the soul is mortal and does not survive the death of the body. As support‚ the following arguments from Lucretius will be examined: the “proof from the atomic structure of the soul‚” the “proof from parallelism of mind and body‚” the “proof from the sympatheia of mind and body‚” and the “proof from the structural connection between mind and body.” The following arguments from Plato will
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An Essay on Glorification of Childhood in Immortality Ode: ‘Immortality Ode’ by William Wordsworth deals with the immortal memoirs of childhood. The gentle melancholy on the past days leaves a pleasing pain of nostalgia in our heart. On running after the lines‚ we reach somewhere in past; holding the hands of memories‚ we go back to the innocence and each mind would say ‘we had a nice time’ In this poem‚ there was a time in speaker’s child hood when to him every ordinary object of nature appeared
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lied dead beside him. If you get more you want more‚ this simplest human trait was left in him along with his two-thirds of mortality. So as a metonymy for the universal desire for mortals to be immortal‚ Gilgamesh also expressed the desire - Marite chahina ami‚ sundar bhubane‚ /manaber majhe ami banchibare chai. - Rabindranath Tagore Immortality – the quality of unending life or never ending existence. First is the state of being physically alive but the second relates
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Immortality Views among Different Cultures and Religions The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual’s beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu‚ "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on
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