Human Life and the Quest for Immortality
By John Danaher
Philosophical Disquisitions
Mar 1, 2015
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/danaher20150301Human beings have long desired immortality. In his book on the topic, cleverly-titled
Immortality, Stephen Cave argues that this desire has taken on four distinct forms over the course of human history. In the first, people seek immortality by simply trying to
stay alive, either through the help of magic or science. In the second, people seek
resurrection, sometimes in the same physical form and sometimes in an altered plane of existence.
In the third, people seek solace through the metaphysical/religious concept of the
soul as an entity that houses the essence of our personalities and which will live on beyond the death of our physical bodies. And in the fourth, people seek immortality through their work or
artistic creations. ...
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