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How Does a Belief in Immortality Affect the Way We Live Now?
Citation (APA): Fischer, J. M. (2014). How Does a Belief in Immortality Affect the Way We Live Now? [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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ci si annoia a vivere x sempre? no: i progetti da realizzare sono infiniti sotto condizioni ottimistiche il concetto di al di là ci fa operare secondo giustizia rifornendoci della giusta deterrenza l imm.terrena ci spinge a preoccuparsi di + del pianeta desiderio infinito = pil infinito - l argomento della cornucopia - la materia è finita ma lo spirito è infinito
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How Does a Belief in Immortality Affect the Way We Live Now? By John Martin Fischer
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Let’s make the “rosy” assumptions that you are in good health, that your body is not deteriorating,
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ASSUNTO
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some have argued that life under such circumstances would be intolerably and relentlessly boring. The idea is that what keeps us from being bored are our “projects”, and eventually we would run out of projects
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NOIA?
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I don’t accept the conclusion that we would run out of projects
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Just consider, for starters, all of the scientific problems that remain to be solved.
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SCIENZA
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Assuming that we would still have projects—other-directed and/or self-directed—in a very long or infinitely long life, would we have any motivation to pursue the projects?
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MOTIVATION
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all our activities and projects would lack “urgency”.
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URGENZA
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But I don’t have much sympathy for the contention that we would have no motivation in an immortal life. Consider, for example, the motivation to avoid pain—that
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DIMINUIRE IL DOLORE
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what if we were to come to believe in immortality in an afterlife?
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PARADISO
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You need actually to care not just about yourself, but about others—you need to love others and to care about justice. If your actions manifest love of others and a dominant concern for justice, then you will be rewarded in the afterlife.
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COMPENSO
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One might think, for example, that belief in an afterlife in heaven or hell (where these realms are not located in our Solar System, say) would have a negative impact on one's concern for environmental degradation.
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AMBIENTE
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So, are we supposed to imagine that some of us are immortal but most humans are not, so we can heroically try to help them live longer (and save the planet for them--if the planet dies, how do we immortals survive?)?
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The doctrine of a metaphysical 'heaven' or 'hell' is, in any case, an escape from the planet earth and the space-time reality; the ultimate consequence of which belief is the utter disregard for the care of this planet.
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VERO PARADISO
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It manifestly *does* matter what one's motivations are, if one is to be acting morally and deserve reward for this behavior.
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belief CAN be detrimental. But I don't think it NEED be. Perhaps God will not reward with a position in Heaven those who despoil and exploit the environment. And presumably God will not reward those who are complacent or even active in the perpetuation of injustice.
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Another way would imply that all are immortal.
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Death is not the only health challenge! How about depression, pain syndromes, arthritis, paralysis, and, well, a panoply or miseries?
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There IS no metaphysical "Heaven" in the Teaching of Jesus 'where' people go to be 'rewarded'.
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Now, if you want to step *outside* of the Teaching of Jesus and adopt the metaphysical doctrines of Paul, fine
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It is hard for me to think of actions that are really "good" or "evil", apart from their motivations.
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Yes, I think that our projects would have to be reconfigured in an immortal life.
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Marriage and Eternal Life
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"hardening" of personality. I say that it is a fact about human beings that most people's personalities do not radically change once they reach a certain age.
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It might be that part of the "hardening" comes from the explicit or implicit recognition of finitude.
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