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Philosophy and Death | Samuel Scheffler

Suppose you learned that you would live out your natural span of life but, thirty days after you died, a giant asteroid would hit the Earth, killing every living being. How would you feel? Pretty bad, probably. How might this knowledge affect the way that you live? Pretty significantly, argues Samuel Scheffler. A lot of the things you currently think are worth doing might not seem worth doing in this doomsday scenario. Why work to protect the environment, start a family, agitate for political change, if the world will end soon after your death? Our own continued existence matters less to us than we ordinarily suppose, Scheffler argues, but the continued existence of humanity matters to us far more. This is the topic for the seventh week of my online course, Thinking about the End: Philosophy and Death. https://eganphilosophy.com/thinking-a... https://eganphilosophy.com/ #philosophy #death #afterlife #samuelscheffler #doomsday #pdjames #childrenofmen #onlineclass #onlineclasses #onlinecourse #onlinecourses #onlinephilosophy 0:00 Introduction 0:23 The Doomsday and Infertility Scenarios 4:43 The Nature of Value 8:07 Traditions and Groups 10:47 The Limits of Egoism 14:15 Closing