Immortality

Russ Shafer-Landau finds issue with the desire satisfaction theory of welfare because it appears to lead to hedonism, which is a different theory of welfare (Shafer-Landau, 54). To examine this issue, I will first try to clearly and thoroughly formulate Russ Shafer-Landau’s objection to desire satisfaction theory. Next, I will attempt to give a coherent response to Shafer-Landau’s objection by attempting to show that it only pertains to uniformed desires. Then, I will object to my own response…

Introduction Inky, dark,, is how the universe appered before creation. When God started creating things from nothing the light exposed connections between objects. God installed a Rorschach overlay so that connections still existed, but not apparent and open to interputation. This experience is common to all humans, it comes from God. God now has a dilemma, he 's bored. It 's the beginning of time (whenever that is), part of being God is the need for attention. It does not occur to…

Abdulkabir Adejumo Professor Escalante PHILO 1301 11/2/2017 Response Paper 1 “Do We Survive Death?” In this interesting chapter, James Rachels starts by uncovering the philosophy of Socrates about the immortal soul. At that point, he utilizes the scientific argument to conflict with Socrates' conclusion about the presence of the soul as a piece of the human body. He at last finishes by talking about different confirmations of the Afterlife and by articulating the contention of David Hume against…

On the other hand there is Plath. As it was earlier mentioned critics define Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet, pre-feminist, suicidal poet who is obsessed to a certain extent with the theme of death. In Lady Lazarus the narrator is in 1st person this is shown through the use of “I”. The narrator is a narcissist who is obsessed with the idea of death and makes herself be undefeatable against death as she is “a sort of walking miracle.” This is one of the reasons why critics associated it as…

Rhetorical analysis of “The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf “Where there’s life, death is inevitable and the greater fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living”, an idea well represented in Virginia Woolf’s “The death of a moth” (Mo Yan Quotes). In Woolf’s book, she describes a moths struggle to hang on to its life before accepting its fate and allowing death to take its last breath away. The longer the moth tried to stay alive, the more it endured. The cycle of life is…

Imagine this: being alive and dead at the same time. Is this even possible, existing in life but be considered dead? Indeed it is, and Modernist literature combined this element, as well as other truths, in their writing. The Modern Era lasted from around 1900 to 1950. World War I, World War II, Great Depression, and Dust Bowl are just some of the events that influenced the literature such as: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Mrs. Dalloway by…

Death is life’s ending. While they may differ in views on death, both Lucretius and Aurelius have a similar idea that death shouldn’t be feared. Lucretius basically has the idea that the fear of death ruins everything in our lives or has the potential to do so. Marcus Aruelius believes that you should always live everyday as if it were your last day because death is natural. Lucretius views the world as a group of random atoms that were floating through space. On the contrary, Aurelius believes…

Religious Immortality and Transcendence In efforts to collect data regarding religious groups and their views on immortality, the Pew Research Center writer, Joseph Liu, found and stated that, “No religious group in the United States has released an official statement on radical life extension” (1). In the United States, religious organizations have kept us guessing on whether immortality is healthy or unhealthy. Despite this, it is possible to draw conclusions on how religions may view…

Where do we go after we die, up to heaven or just sleep till the end of eternity? There is so many theories and ideas of what goes on after life is done. Every culture in the world has a different belief in the afterlife. I am one of the few people that stand in the middle of this situation. I do believe in an afterlife because of being introduced to it as a kid through church. At the same time I think there is not one because there is no science proof behind this. I am open to all ideas and am…

Some really old guy once said something about the unexamined life being a life not worth living, therefore I’m examining my future goals hoping that is what he was talking about. The sad reality of being a mortal is simply that we will one day perish and be laid in the earth to be forgotten. Everyone wishes and wants for more time to roam this world in which we live, however that is simply impossible. It is much better to make the most of time and live life to its absolute fullest. Nearly…