Criticizing Lucretius’s argument on death which he claims is a distraction to our desires and therefore it is a bad thing for us and that an immortal life will make sure we fulfill our desires. Bernard Williams approached Lucretius’s claim with his counterargument in which he opposes Lucretius theory of death by skeptically claiming that death is not always a bad thing because it can also end bad things such as suffering, as a matter of fact he opposes immortality in that it should not be your option to fulfill all your desires because after those desires are fulfilled it will lead one’s life to boredom and one’s life will lose its meaning. He offered two types of desires, conditional desires which are desires one wishes to complete during
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In her immortal life, EM has the same character, but lost the memory of her earlier self (the one who existed before her immortal life), but can adapts to changes that occurred as time passes. Williams’s view is that to remain interested in life one has to search for new desires and this happens only when one’s life is finite. Williams claims that one’s desires are narrow to who they are. If EM wants to keep her life interesting she will need to change her desires and character from time to time but this will not happens in her situation, if one wants to constantly changes her desires and character they have to live finite life. If follows that EM has to have an anit-Lucretian hopes to escape the unpleasantness of an immortal life, but her life will be finite. To conclude, Williams implies that to meet the anti-Lucretian hope, one’s immortal life will not be valid in this world. EM would not be compatible to live in an anti-Lucretian world. If one wishes for an immortal life they have to face the unpleasant nature of their lives becoming meaningless and therefore living a finite would be better option because it gives meaning to …show more content…
Death gives meaning to life because life will not be if it does not to end. Life to be meaningful had to have a starting point and an ending point and in between they are stages one has to hope they go through and accomplish something at each stage and these stages are what build life, they give meaning to everything one’s deeds and existence. Nothing has to be repeated to the point where it is not meaningful and you have are able to experience change to know what life is about, this makes boredom avoidable, as a result one’s life should not go in circles but straight forward until it meet its end. In contrast, an immortal life grounded by Williams’s view will be a meaningless life because you will be going through the same process repeatedly and it is unavoidable in the sense that your character and desires remain stationary, one cannot change their personal identity in this state and this leads to an eternal life that will encounter the same accomplish again and again, resulting in a meaningless life that is already planned and the one living it is able to predict exactly experience of their desire because they have been through it again and again. What makes an immortal life meaningless is the sense that one is living the same life without change. When the same thing is repeated over and over it becomes meaningless because there is nothing to accomplish anymore if one has already
In her immortal life, EM has the same character, but lost the memory of her earlier self (the one who existed before her immortal life), but can adapts to changes that occurred as time passes. Williams’s view is that to remain interested in life one has to search for new desires and this happens only when one’s life is finite. Williams claims that one’s desires are narrow to who they are. If EM wants to keep her life interesting she will need to change her desires and character from time to time but this will not happens in her situation, if one wants to constantly changes her desires and character they have to live finite life. If follows that EM has to have an anit-Lucretian hopes to escape the unpleasantness of an immortal life, but her life will be finite. To conclude, Williams implies that to meet the anti-Lucretian hope, one’s immortal life will not be valid in this world. EM would not be compatible to live in an anti-Lucretian world. If one wishes for an immortal life they have to face the unpleasant nature of their lives becoming meaningless and therefore living a finite would be better option because it gives meaning to …show more content…
Death gives meaning to life because life will not be if it does not to end. Life to be meaningful had to have a starting point and an ending point and in between they are stages one has to hope they go through and accomplish something at each stage and these stages are what build life, they give meaning to everything one’s deeds and existence. Nothing has to be repeated to the point where it is not meaningful and you have are able to experience change to know what life is about, this makes boredom avoidable, as a result one’s life should not go in circles but straight forward until it meet its end. In contrast, an immortal life grounded by Williams’s view will be a meaningless life because you will be going through the same process repeatedly and it is unavoidable in the sense that your character and desires remain stationary, one cannot change their personal identity in this state and this leads to an eternal life that will encounter the same accomplish again and again, resulting in a meaningless life that is already planned and the one living it is able to predict exactly experience of their desire because they have been through it again and again. What makes an immortal life meaningless is the sense that one is living the same life without change. When the same thing is repeated over and over it becomes meaningless because there is nothing to accomplish anymore if one has already