PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Stipulative Definition, Ataraxia, Epicurus
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Week 9: lecture #16: wednesday march 1, 2017. Death and the afterlife part iii - samuel scheffler. Without confidence that others will live on after we ourselves have died, many on the things that now matter to us would cease to do so or would come to matter less (107). Assumption that ppl will live after our death. Life is important to us if humanity fails to exist after our death. Helps us understands this practice of value. What we do now will alter how things are in the future (talked about in the nip) Diff kind; not causal dependency, but we are dependent on the ppl who don"t exist; value. Changes the way we look at the future from the nip. The reasons that we have for attending to the interests of future generations are often conceptualized as obligations of justice or seen as grounded in our responsibilities to our descendants.
