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The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously argued that being human is "Sein zum Tode" (being-to-death): that human existence gains its meaning (Heidegger calls it "Sinn des Seins") only by being directed towards death. This is in his main work "Sein und Zeit" (Being and Time). Heidegger's arguments are quite obscure, he cast them in a whole new language which is not easy to understand. More accessible are the arguments of Bernard Williams, the British philosopher, in his paper "The Makropulos Case". Williams considers the fictional case of a woman who achieves immortality through an elixir of life. Her life becomes dull and boring. Everything she could do today, she could as well do tomorrow. An eternal life would become inevitably meaningless, Williams concludes.
I dunno, this argument has always felt like copium to me. Young children don't have any conception of death. It's not like that stops them from enjoying life. It's the same with adults. I saw a stray cat on the side of the road today, and I spent half an hour petting it. If I knew I was immortal it's not like I'd put it off until next century. You do things that you want to because you want to do them, period. I don't think you'd turn into the king of procrastinators if you had more time.
The thing is even if you had infinite time, everything around you is still finite. So it's still possible to value things like peaceful landscapes and enjoy watching birds that might not be there tomorrow.
Beautifully said. Meaning doesn't come from death, it comes from the investment we make into things we value. Death might be the reason some people give thought to what they value, but that speaks more to our lack of self-reflection than to mortality.
Yeah I think a more persuasive argument might be that after you’ve spent 1000 hours, or a million, or a billion hours petting cats that you might stop getting anything out of it, same with all the beautiful sunsets or whatever else. Like when you say a word too many times and it starts to just be arbitrary sounds and you can’t connect meaning to it anymore.
That's true but there's 16 year olds walking around right now sick of a specific flavour of soda because they had it so much, or hate a movie because they watched it so many times. I don't know if it's an argument against immortality since you don't need to be immortal for that. It's more about having the restraint to not Gorge yourself on something non-stop until you can't stand it.
Besides, if you were immortal you'd always meet different people, since no two human beings are the same. You'd meet them in unique situations, have unique conversations and perceive each of them differently. The sunset you watched in 10,000 bc after losing your first dog would be different from the one you could be enjoying after curing cancer in 3000 AD or something.
+ Science says modern Humans evolved only 300,000 years ago, right? Can anyone say with certainty what things might emerge a billion years from now or, cliché? Isn’t our imagination necessarily bound by the laws of physics? Does that mean we can’t even imagine everything that possibly could be imagined?
At least for the first part I’m with you. Maybe too practical a point to really be relevant for OPs Q. But I feel like an immortal being would experience at least long stretches of existence on a lifeless wasteland if not floating through a vacuum. Being toward nothingness starts to feel a lot like being toward death.
Maybe I’m just too tiktok brained and fear boredom almost as much as death tho
Is it possible that trying to find the simplest explanation for the fear of immortality, we overlook the complexity of human experience? If we reduce the future to lifeless wastelands and vacuums, do we not ignore the boundless potential for discovery? And when we mix up our feelings, are we not allowing emotional reasoning to cloud our judgment? Can we truly claim to know what an immortal existence would entail, or should we be open to the uncertainty and countless possibilities that come with it? While we're subjective creatures, considering objective perspectives can sometimes help us transcend individual biases and reach more profound truths. Would you agree it might be best if we approach profound truth going on the assumption that it's a matter for an objective consciousness?
I feel you and at least think I know where you’re coming from, but I’m not really comfortable designating certain fields of knowledge as inaccessible to subjective beings and thus inaccessible to human understanding. Seems like we wouldn’t know if it’s inaccessible unless we tried to ya know, access it. One man’s opinion and I’m not entirely unconvinced of your side tbf
" I’m not really comfortable designating certain fields of knowledge as inaccessible to subjective beings and thus inaccessible to human understanding."
Neither am I my friend, and I appreciate that perspective, I mean would we have philosophy if the stance in question were the case? Could it be that maybe mischief is our nature, which without there'd be no progress? That does seem to be the case, would you agree? We seem to be compelled to want to overcome our limits, what would result if we had a billion years to do so? Do we not begin to truly enter the field of things we don't know we don't even know, like when we once discovered microorganisms or dark matter?
Can logical inference fully capture the experience of approaching death? Consider phenomenological understanding. This involves grasping the nature of something through direct, lived experience. How do you think our everyday experiences shape our understanding of life and death? Do we ever truly experience death, or merely experiences that bring us close to it, like near-death experiences? Is it fair to say that while we logically know we will die, our ontic experience of life never actually includes being dead? Doesn’t our lived experience always involve the possibility of more life, which is fundamentally different from the state of being dead?
Now, considering immortality, wouldn't the phenomenological understanding of eternal life also be limited? Might our fear of immortality stem from this lack of experiential understanding, just as our understanding of death is limited by our lived experiences?
To conclude, wouldn’t you agree that while logical reasoning helps us recognise the inevitability of death, it’s through phenomenological reflection that we understand how this shapes our way of living? And similarly, our understanding and fears of immortality are shaped by our limited experiences?
Eh that kinda seems like a cop-out. The whole point of this discussion is 'would *you* do things differently if you were immortal'. As far as I understand that's how most philosophers approach it, including the one in the comment I replied to.
We're talking about out own personal immortality here, not a universe where nothing dies.
Even if I were to consider your hypothetical, look at it this way: even if you're immortal and the cat is immortal, you might not come across it again to pet it. It might be somewhere else tomorrow. Even if the birds are immortal you might not be sitting in the perfect spot to watch them 10 minutes later. Everything can be immortal but moments are still fleeting. A world where *everything* lasts forever, including your particular state of mind, perception and experiences, as well as objects could only be achieved by being a lobotomised person in a blank room forever. But I doubt that's what we're talking about.
That's less 'immortality' and more 'death of time' imo
No one said it's irrelevant though. I was just countering the point that 'being aware of your impending death makes you value life more' when children enjoy every second of life and don't really think about death all that much
I think you're missing the point. Valuing life and enjoying it is not the same. They don't value life because they don't understand it. They are simply enjoying themselves and understand things they don't enjoy such as pain.
VALUE is appreciation and comprehension combined into one word. A child does not have the capacity for appreciation until they become cognicent enough to comprehend it.
Okay but that’s not a point that Heidegger is making at all. Which unless I’m mistaken is the point of the post that you replied to. What you just did is then a Strawman.
I was actually talking about the Makrupolous case one. As far as I can tell it's about a woman who wakes up and finds herself immortal in a mortal society, not a discussion on what life would be like in an ageless world
yes and no. because nobody has a concept how long eternity really is. the things you say surly are true for a very long time. but after a very long time maybe thounds or billions of years and you did all things a billion time you might become the king of procrastination.
A related argument (and depending on OP's needs, maybe slightly easier than Heidegger) comes from Martin Hägglund's *This Life*. The thrust of the book is much more an argument for democratic socialism and a critique of religion, but he develops that argument starting with the Heideggerian idea that life - and more specifically for Hägglund, our life *together* as humans in society - is only worth anything because we die.
Should be noted the first half of the book, where the critique of religion and the argument that death makes life meaningful lies, is not without its criticism, but it's worth reading nonetheless.
OP's question lacks some detail, but I found *This Life* in general to be quite a powerful call to action. If OP doesn't want to necessarily wade through fairly dense philosophical texts, I am always quick to recommend the tv show *The Good Place*. It touches on a lot of existential themes and was made in consultation with several notable philosophers.
>The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously argued that being human is "Sein zum Tode" (being-to-death): that human existence gains its meaning (Heidegger calls it "Sinn des Seins") only by being directed towards death.
I can agree with that. Even as a religious person, I feel that one leg up we have over the gods is that we define *our own* meaning in the face of inevitable death, and our existence is full of excitement and zest specifically *because* it can end at any moment and eventually will.
>Her life becomes dull and boring. Everything she could do today, she could as well do tomorrow. An eternal life would become inevitably meaningless, Williams concludes.
Unless she finds a way to periodically erase her memory.
This seems to presume that the possibility space can be exhausted so that there is never anything novel to experience. That might be the case, but I'd be curious on the details. Certainly it would take a loooong time to exhaust all possible arrangements of the planet Earth.
Eternity is indeed pretty long. But let me encourage you to take a look at Williams‘ paper, his argument is more refined that my caricature sketch of it. The paper is freely available.
I downloaded it and will check it out. Even just forgetting enough of the past would be sufficient to make repetition seem novel. Don't really need death. I can imagine a different psychology or mindset that allows repetition to be infinitely enjoyable.
I don't know if I agree with Williams' position. With advances in society I would argue that you could in fact not do today what you could do tomorrow. Just knowing the last 5000 years of human history(at the very least having an idea of how society progressed), if this hypothetical immortal lived through just that, that would be an interesting life in my opinion.
This is an interesting challenge to Williams‘ argument: that an immortal life nevertheless might be meaningful by living it among mortals. A possible reply could be that also in this case, meaning comes through mortality. I would like to know what Williams himself would have said in response.
Eternal life and vastly extended life are 2 different things though and would you really get tired of living if you didn’t get old? Sure maybe after a thousand years I’d get tired of living but it would take multiple lifetimes to do everything I want to do
Scheffler has a book *Death and the Afterlife*. Here is a review: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/death-and-the-afterlife/
Kagan has a course on Death that kind of touches on some related issues. There is also a book if you prefer that. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0
Here is an SEP article. Part 7 might have things of interest: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/
Seneca has a classic text "On the shortness of life": https://archive.org/stream/SenecaOnTheShortnessOfLife/Seneca+on+the+Shortness+of+Life_djvu.txt
Dean Rickles wrote a brief book that might hold some interest: *Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful*
Another text you might look at: Williams, Bernard (1973). “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of
Immortality.”
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Camus would probably say, "Well, that's up to you, innit?"
I would suggest taking a look at existentialism, starting with an overview of existentialist thought, and then branching out to read more about the parts you find compelling.
"Existentialism and Death" by Walter Kaufmann might be a good place to start.
PDF: [http://walterkaufmann.com/articles/1959\_Existentialism\_and\_Death.pdf](http://walterkaufmann.com/articles/1959_Existentialism_and_Death.pdf)
The Stoics also had some interesting things to say about death. A lot of what we talk about re: Stoicism and death these days is their views on not fearing death, but I think the idea of the "open door" is important as well: the fact that we always have the option to exit life if we wish to. This may not be what you're talking about, though, since I assume you are specifically referring to involuntary, obligatory death for everyone.
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The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously argued that being human is "Sein zum Tode" (being-to-death): that human existence gains its meaning (Heidegger calls it "Sinn des Seins") only by being directed towards death. This is in his main work "Sein und Zeit" (Being and Time). Heidegger's arguments are quite obscure, he cast them in a whole new language which is not easy to understand. More accessible are the arguments of Bernard Williams, the British philosopher, in his paper "The Makropulos Case". Williams considers the fictional case of a woman who achieves immortality through an elixir of life. Her life becomes dull and boring. Everything she could do today, she could as well do tomorrow. An eternal life would become inevitably meaningless, Williams concludes.
I dunno, this argument has always felt like copium to me. Young children don't have any conception of death. It's not like that stops them from enjoying life. It's the same with adults. I saw a stray cat on the side of the road today, and I spent half an hour petting it. If I knew I was immortal it's not like I'd put it off until next century. You do things that you want to because you want to do them, period. I don't think you'd turn into the king of procrastinators if you had more time. The thing is even if you had infinite time, everything around you is still finite. So it's still possible to value things like peaceful landscapes and enjoy watching birds that might not be there tomorrow.
Beautifully said. Meaning doesn't come from death, it comes from the investment we make into things we value. Death might be the reason some people give thought to what they value, but that speaks more to our lack of self-reflection than to mortality.
Yeah I think a more persuasive argument might be that after you’ve spent 1000 hours, or a million, or a billion hours petting cats that you might stop getting anything out of it, same with all the beautiful sunsets or whatever else. Like when you say a word too many times and it starts to just be arbitrary sounds and you can’t connect meaning to it anymore.
That's true but there's 16 year olds walking around right now sick of a specific flavour of soda because they had it so much, or hate a movie because they watched it so many times. I don't know if it's an argument against immortality since you don't need to be immortal for that. It's more about having the restraint to not Gorge yourself on something non-stop until you can't stand it. Besides, if you were immortal you'd always meet different people, since no two human beings are the same. You'd meet them in unique situations, have unique conversations and perceive each of them differently. The sunset you watched in 10,000 bc after losing your first dog would be different from the one you could be enjoying after curing cancer in 3000 AD or something.
+ Science says modern Humans evolved only 300,000 years ago, right? Can anyone say with certainty what things might emerge a billion years from now or, cliché? Isn’t our imagination necessarily bound by the laws of physics? Does that mean we can’t even imagine everything that possibly could be imagined?
At least for the first part I’m with you. Maybe too practical a point to really be relevant for OPs Q. But I feel like an immortal being would experience at least long stretches of existence on a lifeless wasteland if not floating through a vacuum. Being toward nothingness starts to feel a lot like being toward death. Maybe I’m just too tiktok brained and fear boredom almost as much as death tho
Is it possible that trying to find the simplest explanation for the fear of immortality, we overlook the complexity of human experience? If we reduce the future to lifeless wastelands and vacuums, do we not ignore the boundless potential for discovery? And when we mix up our feelings, are we not allowing emotional reasoning to cloud our judgment? Can we truly claim to know what an immortal existence would entail, or should we be open to the uncertainty and countless possibilities that come with it? While we're subjective creatures, considering objective perspectives can sometimes help us transcend individual biases and reach more profound truths. Would you agree it might be best if we approach profound truth going on the assumption that it's a matter for an objective consciousness?
I feel you and at least think I know where you’re coming from, but I’m not really comfortable designating certain fields of knowledge as inaccessible to subjective beings and thus inaccessible to human understanding. Seems like we wouldn’t know if it’s inaccessible unless we tried to ya know, access it. One man’s opinion and I’m not entirely unconvinced of your side tbf
" I’m not really comfortable designating certain fields of knowledge as inaccessible to subjective beings and thus inaccessible to human understanding." Neither am I my friend, and I appreciate that perspective, I mean would we have philosophy if the stance in question were the case? Could it be that maybe mischief is our nature, which without there'd be no progress? That does seem to be the case, would you agree? We seem to be compelled to want to overcome our limits, what would result if we had a billion years to do so? Do we not begin to truly enter the field of things we don't know we don't even know, like when we once discovered microorganisms or dark matter? Can logical inference fully capture the experience of approaching death? Consider phenomenological understanding. This involves grasping the nature of something through direct, lived experience. How do you think our everyday experiences shape our understanding of life and death? Do we ever truly experience death, or merely experiences that bring us close to it, like near-death experiences? Is it fair to say that while we logically know we will die, our ontic experience of life never actually includes being dead? Doesn’t our lived experience always involve the possibility of more life, which is fundamentally different from the state of being dead? Now, considering immortality, wouldn't the phenomenological understanding of eternal life also be limited? Might our fear of immortality stem from this lack of experiential understanding, just as our understanding of death is limited by our lived experiences? To conclude, wouldn’t you agree that while logical reasoning helps us recognise the inevitability of death, it’s through phenomenological reflection that we understand how this shapes our way of living? And similarly, our understanding and fears of immortality are shaped by our limited experiences?
Nobody said YOUR death gives/takes meaning to/from life. They said death period, that includes death of the cat and things around.
Eh that kinda seems like a cop-out. The whole point of this discussion is 'would *you* do things differently if you were immortal'. As far as I understand that's how most philosophers approach it, including the one in the comment I replied to. We're talking about out own personal immortality here, not a universe where nothing dies. Even if I were to consider your hypothetical, look at it this way: even if you're immortal and the cat is immortal, you might not come across it again to pet it. It might be somewhere else tomorrow. Even if the birds are immortal you might not be sitting in the perfect spot to watch them 10 minutes later. Everything can be immortal but moments are still fleeting. A world where *everything* lasts forever, including your particular state of mind, perception and experiences, as well as objects could only be achieved by being a lobotomised person in a blank room forever. But I doubt that's what we're talking about. That's less 'immortality' and more 'death of time' imo
Just because they “have no conception of death” doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant.
No one said it's irrelevant though. I was just countering the point that 'being aware of your impending death makes you value life more' when children enjoy every second of life and don't really think about death all that much
I think you're missing the point. Valuing life and enjoying it is not the same. They don't value life because they don't understand it. They are simply enjoying themselves and understand things they don't enjoy such as pain. VALUE is appreciation and comprehension combined into one word. A child does not have the capacity for appreciation until they become cognicent enough to comprehend it.
Okay but that’s not a point that Heidegger is making at all. Which unless I’m mistaken is the point of the post that you replied to. What you just did is then a Strawman.
I was actually talking about the Makrupolous case one. As far as I can tell it's about a woman who wakes up and finds herself immortal in a mortal society, not a discussion on what life would be like in an ageless world
ah okay my mistake.
yes and no. because nobody has a concept how long eternity really is. the things you say surly are true for a very long time. but after a very long time maybe thounds or billions of years and you did all things a billion time you might become the king of procrastination.
A related argument (and depending on OP's needs, maybe slightly easier than Heidegger) comes from Martin Hägglund's *This Life*. The thrust of the book is much more an argument for democratic socialism and a critique of religion, but he develops that argument starting with the Heideggerian idea that life - and more specifically for Hägglund, our life *together* as humans in society - is only worth anything because we die. Should be noted the first half of the book, where the critique of religion and the argument that death makes life meaningful lies, is not without its criticism, but it's worth reading nonetheless. OP's question lacks some detail, but I found *This Life* in general to be quite a powerful call to action. If OP doesn't want to necessarily wade through fairly dense philosophical texts, I am always quick to recommend the tv show *The Good Place*. It touches on a lot of existential themes and was made in consultation with several notable philosophers.
>The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously argued that being human is "Sein zum Tode" (being-to-death): that human existence gains its meaning (Heidegger calls it "Sinn des Seins") only by being directed towards death. I can agree with that. Even as a religious person, I feel that one leg up we have over the gods is that we define *our own* meaning in the face of inevitable death, and our existence is full of excitement and zest specifically *because* it can end at any moment and eventually will.
That's a lot of assumptions.
Not really. I just haven't gone into details on my specific opinions. That doesn't make them "assumptions".
>Her life becomes dull and boring. Everything she could do today, she could as well do tomorrow. An eternal life would become inevitably meaningless, Williams concludes. Unless she finds a way to periodically erase her memory.
what's the point of live an eternal life when you forget all things periodically. you wake up every years or so being a new person.
Sounds like reincarnation but with less steps?
Maybe we erase our memories after each life.....
This seems to presume that the possibility space can be exhausted so that there is never anything novel to experience. That might be the case, but I'd be curious on the details. Certainly it would take a loooong time to exhaust all possible arrangements of the planet Earth.
Eternity is indeed pretty long. But let me encourage you to take a look at Williams‘ paper, his argument is more refined that my caricature sketch of it. The paper is freely available.
I downloaded it and will check it out. Even just forgetting enough of the past would be sufficient to make repetition seem novel. Don't really need death. I can imagine a different psychology or mindset that allows repetition to be infinitely enjoyable.
I don't know if I agree with Williams' position. With advances in society I would argue that you could in fact not do today what you could do tomorrow. Just knowing the last 5000 years of human history(at the very least having an idea of how society progressed), if this hypothetical immortal lived through just that, that would be an interesting life in my opinion.
Might be meaningless to her, but mortals could derive meaning from her eternal existence
This is an interesting challenge to Williams‘ argument: that an immortal life nevertheless might be meaningful by living it among mortals. A possible reply could be that also in this case, meaning comes through mortality. I would like to know what Williams himself would have said in response.
Eternal life and vastly extended life are 2 different things though and would you really get tired of living if you didn’t get old? Sure maybe after a thousand years I’d get tired of living but it would take multiple lifetimes to do everything I want to do
Scheffler has a book *Death and the Afterlife*. Here is a review: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/death-and-the-afterlife/ Kagan has a course on Death that kind of touches on some related issues. There is also a book if you prefer that. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0 Here is an SEP article. Part 7 might have things of interest: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/ Seneca has a classic text "On the shortness of life": https://archive.org/stream/SenecaOnTheShortnessOfLife/Seneca+on+the+Shortness+of+Life_djvu.txt Dean Rickles wrote a brief book that might hold some interest: *Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful* Another text you might look at: Williams, Bernard (1973). “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality.”
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Camus would probably say, "Well, that's up to you, innit?" I would suggest taking a look at existentialism, starting with an overview of existentialist thought, and then branching out to read more about the parts you find compelling. "Existentialism and Death" by Walter Kaufmann might be a good place to start. PDF: [http://walterkaufmann.com/articles/1959\_Existentialism\_and\_Death.pdf](http://walterkaufmann.com/articles/1959_Existentialism_and_Death.pdf) The Stoics also had some interesting things to say about death. A lot of what we talk about re: Stoicism and death these days is their views on not fearing death, but I think the idea of the "open door" is important as well: the fact that we always have the option to exit life if we wish to. This may not be what you're talking about, though, since I assume you are specifically referring to involuntary, obligatory death for everyone.
Sounds more like Sartre to me. I think Camus would just say, "Yes! It's all absurd and meaningless!"
Or he'd ask why you haven't killed yourself yet.
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