Dlaczego nieśmiertelność nie jest taka zła: (przeł. Marcin Iwanicki)

John Martin Fischer; Marcin Iwanicki

doi:10.18290/rf.2016.64.1-11

Published : 2016-03-30

Vol. 64 No. 1 (2016)

Why Immortality Is Not So Bad (transl. Marcin Iwanicki)

John Martin Fischer

Marcin Iwanicki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2016.64.1-11

(transl. Marcin Iwanicki)

Abstract

The author argues that immortality need not be as bad as Bernard Williams says it would be. He argues that if an immortal life were characterized by a sufficiently diverse package of experiences, appropriately distributed, there is no reason to think that one would become bored (just as there is no reason to think that one would become bored of such experiences in a finite life). He acknowledges that some pleasurable experiences would be “self-exhausting,” but he says that there are enough “repeatable pleasures” to avoid the tedium of which Bernard Williams speaks.

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immortality, tedium, self-exhausting experiences, repeatable pleasures, Bernard Williams

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Fischer, J. M., & Iwanicki, M. (2016). Why Immortality Is Not So Bad (transl. Marcin Iwanicki): (transl. Marcin Iwanicki). Roczniki Filozoficzne, 64(1), 153–170. https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2016.64.1-11

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John Martin Fischer

john.fischer@ucr.edu

Affiliation:

University of California United States

Marcin Iwanicki

miwanick@gmail.com

Affiliation:

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Poland