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Immortal Passage: Philosophical Speculations on Posthuman Evolution defends the posthuman hypothesis: that descendants of present humans, leading lives of indefinitely extended duration, and having significantly altered biological, psychological, and social characteristics, will have lives superior to those of current humans. A detailed speculative account of these lives, with attention to philosophical issues raised by such an account, presents the major philosophical challenge of Immortal Passage.

Artificial life. --- Immortalism. --- Human evolution.

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This series of brief and sparkling philosophical essays explores the Principle of Continuity as it impacts discussions of the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe, God, infinity, biological immortality and evolution. From Ancient Greece to the frontiers of modern science, some egregious blunders have been made in both philosophy and in theoretical physics. The old theory of Continuous Creation was blown up by the Big Bang theory, but the author shows that this is just another ontological quagmire that conflicts with the First Law of Thermodynamics (conservation)-and common sense. Surveyi

Cosmology, Ancient. --- Immortality. --- Immortalism. --- Prolongation of life span --- Aging --- Death --- Longevity --- Immortality --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Immortalism --- Ancient cosmology --- Religious aspects

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Grabinschriften erlauben einen einmaligen Einblick in die Glaubenswelt des Menschen. Anhand von 64 Inschriften aus dem Mittelmeerraum rekonstruiert diese Studie den Unsterblichkeitsglauben der griechischsprachigen Menschen der Antike. Die Inschriften stammen aus der Zeit vom 5. Jh. v. Chr. bis in das 5. Jh. n. Chr. Analysiert werden die in den Grabinschriften verwendeten Bilder, wobei sich verschiedene Bestandteile des Unsterblichkeitsglaubens herauskristallisieren: der Träger der Unsterblichkeit, der Ort, an dem man die Unsterblichkeit erlebt, sowie die dort verrichteten Tätigkeiten. Vor diesem Hintergrund lässt sich zudem eine Seelenlehre der Grabinschriften zeichnen. Die Studie zeigt, dass jeder einzelne Bestandteil des Glaubens sowohl im dies- als auch im jenseitigen Bereich erlebt werden konnte. Das Gesamtbild des Unsterblichkeitskonzepts weist jedoch beträchtliche Inkonsequenzen auf: So kann der Verstorbene mit dem schwindenden Atem identifiziert werden, verrichtet jedoch im Jenseits den Göttern einen ewigen Dienst. Die Inschriften geben demnach ein Zeugnis für die so oft inkohärenten Vorstellungen einer populären Religiosität, die jedoch von literarischen Topoi und philosophischen Einflüssen geprägt ist.

Immortality --- Religion and culture --- Inscriptions, Greek. --- Sepulchral monuments --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Immortalism --- Greek inscriptions --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- History --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquities. --- Ancient Greece. --- Faith. --- Funerary Inscriptions. --- Immortality.

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The Renaissance philosopher Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) is mostly known for denying the human mind’s immateriality (and immortality) in accordance with his radical understanding of Aristotelianism. Pomponazzis Erkenntnistheorie attempts to reconstruct his theory of cognition. The author, Paolo Rubini, focuses on Pomponazzi’s scattered views about the mind’s ontological status and cognitive capacities, puts them into the context of Aristotelian-Scholastic psychology, and interprets them by reference to Pomponazzi’s ‘naturalistic’ approach to the human soul. Particular interest is devoted to the role of representations in cognitive acts, the functional link between intellect and imagination, and the process of abstraction. The study is based on Pomponazzi’s published writings about immortality as well as on unpublished records of his lectures about Aristotle’s De anima .

Philosophy of mind. --- Immortality. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophie de l'esprit --- Immortalité --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Aristotle. --- Pomponazzi, Pietro, --- Immortalité --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Immortalism --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Philosophy --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Aristotle --- Pomponatius, Petrus, --- Pomponat︠s︡t︠s︡i, Pʹetro,