Philosophy Talk. Living On Through Others

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Abstract: Imagine that the world will end in thirty days. Would your life have meaning anymore? Would anyone’s? It seems that there would no longer be any point to making technological or medical advances, developing new forms of art, or even taking good care of ourselves. Imagining the doomsday scenario shows that there is something particularly disturbing about the prospect that not only we, but also everyone else, will die. Why is this? Would our lives be nearly as meaningful if others did not live on after our death? Could our “collective afterlife” through the lives of others actually be more important than the “personal afterlife” with which we are so often preoccupied? John and Ken live on through Samuel Scheffler from NYU, author of Death & the Afterlife.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	November 1, 2015
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title Living On Through Others
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	391.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sz201by5262
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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