{"id":5534,"date":"2017-05-09T05:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/is-life-a-ponzi-scheme\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T05:39:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:39:55","slug":"is-life-a-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/is-life-a-ponzi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Mark Johnston<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/books-ideas\/mark-johnston-samuel-scheffler-death-afterlife-humanity-ponzi-scheme\"> reviews<\/a> Scheffler &amp; Kolodny, eds., <em>Death and the Afterlife<\/em>, Oxford UP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I note that the title is false advertising:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In Scheffler\u2019s self-consciously idiosyncratic use of the term, the\u201cafterlife\u201d is neither a supernatural continuation of this life, nor the result of a deeper naturalistic understanding of the kind of thing we are; it is what John Stuart Mill called \u201cthe onward rush of mankind,\u201d the collective life of humanity after our individual deaths. Scheffler\u2019s thesis is that the onward rush of humankind\u2014the collective afterlife\u2014is much more important to us than we are ordinarily apt to notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Johnston reviews Scheffler &amp; Kolodny, eds., Death and the Afterlife, Oxford UP. I note that the title is false advertising: In Scheffler\u2019s self-consciously idiosyncratic use of the term, the\u201cafterlife\u201d is neither a supernatural continuation of this life, nor the result of a deeper naturalistic understanding of the kind of thing we are; it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/09\/is-life-a-ponzi-scheme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}