Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T10:30:57.431Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Séance with an Immortal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2006

Roy Sorensen
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

To understand death, you need to compare mortality with immortality. I am here to help. In addition to my personal testimony, I present highlights from a survey of immortal species and a survey of infinitistic varieties of mortality. These field studies rebut Fredrich Nietzsche’s thesis that immortality is inevitably repetitious, Bernard Williams’ allegation that immortality is inevitably boring, and Epicurus’ thesis that death cannot be bad for you. On the positive side, the study shows that the main difference between immortality and mortality are quantitative. Attention is also given to some striking qualitative differences.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 395 - 416
Copyright
2006 The Royal Institute of Philosophy

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)