Is There a 10% Chance That I Will Live Forever?

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If I were to live forever, how bored would I end up? It depends on how good of a person you are. The good people are more or less bored. You can get by in a 100-year life not being too much attuned to things of eternal significance. But if we're talking about eternity or even thousands of years, you better find something to occupy you that is really riveting.

Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard?

If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato’s Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good people lived forever, would they be less bored than the bad people? Should we fear death? Is parenting undertheorized? Must philosophy rely on refutation? Should we read the classics? Is Jordan Peterson’s moralizing good? Should we take Socrates at his word? Is Hamlet a Cartesian? Are we all either Beethoven or Mozart people? How do we get ourselves to care about things we don’t yet care about? To what should we aspire to?

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Recorded March 22nd, 2018 Other ways to connect

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