Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
استفان کِیو: چهار داستانی که ما در مورد مرگ به خود میگوییم
Philosopher Stephen Cave wants to know: Why is humanity so obsessed with living forever? Full bio
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question occurred to me:
become aware of death.
wouldn't happen of course,
که البته چنین اتفاقی نمیافته،
news program at the time,
about their religious beliefs.
در مورد اعتقادات دینیشان دوباره پرسیده شد.
to think about being dead
در مورد مرگ فکر کنند
were all equally agnostic.
همه در یک حد اگنوستیک بودند.
on as part of a greater whole.
به زندگی ادامه دهید.
in the work of the alchemists,
در کار کیمیاگران،
and exactly this kind of plan B
و این برنامه
resurrected to live again
تا دوباره زندگی کنیم
omnipotent scientist will do it.
دانشمند قادر مطلق این کار را انجام خواهد داد.
and a funny cat. (Laughter)
و یک گربهی بامزه است. (خندهی حضار)
the hearts of my countrymen.
in such different belief systems,
limited by beginning and end,
محدود به آغاز و پایان است،
limited by beginning and end,
به آغاز و پایان محدود میشود،
that make up their story,
که داستانشان را شکل میدهند،
and your birth and your death.
و تولد و مرگ خود را تصور کنید.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Stephen Cave - PhilosopherPhilosopher Stephen Cave wants to know: Why is humanity so obsessed with living forever?
Why you should listen
Stephen Cave is a writer and philosopher who is obsessed with our obsession with immortality. In 2012 he published Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, an inquiry into humanity's rather irrational resistance to the inevitability of death. Cave moves across time and history's major civilizations and religions to explore just what drives this instinct -- and what that means for the future. Cave writes for The Financial Times and contributes to The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired.
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