Questions tagged [life]
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Would philosophy still exist if there was no life? [closed]
Would philosophy still exist without life? For example, for us humans, philosophy answers big questions and sort of governs society. But is philosophy something that would exist without life? On this ...
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Plato or Aristotle on trading lives
I am sure I remember either Plato or Aristotle saying that most people, if a god approached them with an offer to trade their life for someone else's, would run away. But I have been wrong before ...
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What if the Evil Genius in Descartes' "I think therefore I am" put into our minds the action of doubting?
I am briefly aware of Descartes' argument that even if an Evil Genius made us believe that the world is real the fact that we can doubt this shows that we are thinking and that through thought we can ...
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How to live the present instead of just surviving?
When I was younger, I always tried to imagine how my future would be, and how it would feel like. I tried to imagine how my relationships would be, how my house would be, what my job would be, etc., ...
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What is Don Marquis argument that a being does not have to be a person to have a right to life; even potential persons have a right to life?
The original Don Marquis paper "Why Abortion is Immoral".
Many moral theories agree that the bearers of rights should be “persons”, not merely biological humans. What are the counter-arguments for it?...
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How much the world is logical [closed]
In her book The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng writes:"I have already asserted the fact that nothing in the world actually behaves
according to logic. So how can we use logic in the ...
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Non Cyclic definition of life/death? [closed]
Life and death have a cyclic dictionary definition. Can one not be defined without the other? ( a question on philosophy of language)
I am hypothesizing that the immediate words that come to the ...
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Schopenhauer on the unworthiness of life
In which book and section does Schopenhauer say that "life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of any major effort"?
I often see this quote attributed to him, ...
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If you know something has the potential to be sentient is it unethical to intentionally prevent it from gaining sentience?
In Star Trek TNG, TOS and Voyager they at some point debate what sentience is and what makes a person a person.
Picard with Data/Moriarty, Janeway with The Doctor/holos, Kirk and Spock with the Horta ...
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Let's suppose that life is happening by itself, how we can verify if it is really the case?
So, let's suppose that there's no entity behind our thoughts, choosing them, no entity behind our actions, it's all happening by itself (by an infinity universal force that is common to everything, ...
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Why do humans make infants? [closed]
Considering that humans are the most intelligent species on earth, why do humans make infants?
I cannot understand the reason why humans make infants, when
humans can't predict whether the ...
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Could "I" become consciousness as someone else in the future?
I want to immediately dismiss any idea of soul or spiritual component of human being and I accept that death is nothingness (end) when it comes to my question. No rebirth, reincarnation etc.
But ...
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How does regret work for the people who have lost their memories, by accident or some other reasons? [closed]
The person who has lost his or her memories will have no regrets, then how would he learn the lessons of life?
I have asked the same question in Psychology and Neuroscience SE as well. What I am ...
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Is there the creator overseeing us all. How does He do that? [closed]
Is there the creator overseeing us all. How does He do that?
Is that possible due to His omnipresence and being independent of 3+1D (x, y, z, ct) limitations?
My previous question and related to ...
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What pushes life to live?
I tried to word the question differently from all the "why does life want to live" questions on the internet. My question is not about the mental consciousness of being alive, but more about the ...
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