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- Fatalism, Foreknowledge and Determinism
- Guest: John Martin Fischer - philosophy professor. [[Death, Immortality and the Meaning of Life]]
- [[problem of evil]]: How a perfect God would allow the level of suffering that exists in the world. One of the responses/defenses is that free will depends on human freedom etc.
- It leads naturally to questions about moral/criminal responsibility. At a certain level the issues are abstract but relate to very concrete issues.
- Guest: John Martin Fischer - philosophy professor. [[Death, Immortality and the Meaning of Life]]
- What Does It All Mean –– Thomas Nagel
- [[death]], [[Death, Immortality and the Meaning of Life]]
- To imagine your own annihilation you have to think of it from the outside –– think about your body of the person you are, with all the experience and life gone from it. To imagine something it is not necessary to imagine how it would feel for you to experience
- The question of survival after death is related to the [[mind-body]] problem.
- #comment A counter argument to [[Shelly Kagan]]'s #death course on Yale.
- The prospect of non-existence is frightening, atleast to many people, in a way that past non-existence cannot be.
- Death should be something to be afraid of only if we will survive it, and perhaps undergo some terrifying transformation. [[Why You Need to Actively Meditate on Your Mortality]]
- To imagine your own annihilation you have to think of it from the outside –– think about your body of the person you are, with all the experience and life gone from it. To imagine something it is not necessary to imagine how it would feel for you to experience
- [[death]], [[Death, Immortality and the Meaning of Life]]