{"id":5835,"date":"2017-01-25T04:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T04:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/is-a-dead-person-mortal\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T04:36:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T04:36:58","slug":"is-a-dead-person-mortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/is-a-dead-person-mortal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Dead Person Mortal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mortality\"<\/a>To be mortal is to be subject to death just as to be breakable is to be subject to breakage.  But whereas a wine glass is fragile\/breakable even if there is no future time at which it breaks, a man is mortal only if there is a future time at which he dies. If there is no future time at which he dies, then he is immortal. This is what we usually mean by 'mortal' and 'immortal.'<\/span><\/p>\n

But what about my mother? She is dead. Is she mortal? Having died, she cannot die again. So there is no future time at which she dies. It follows that she is not mortal if mortality requires a future time at which the mortal individual dies. On the other hand, she is surely not immortal in virtue of having died. Is she then neither mortal nor immortal? Are dead people indeterminate with respect to this distinction? Or perhaps the dead are wholly nonexistent and for this reason have no properties at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

An Aporetic Tetrad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

a. Socrates is mortal.<\/span>
b. Socrates is dead.<\/span>
c. A man is mortal only if there is a future time at which he dies.<\/span>
d. A man cannot die twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The limbs cannot all be true, yet each makes a serious claim on our acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a solution in mind. But let's see what the Londonistas have to say.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\nRelated articles<\/legend>\n
\n
<\/a>On This Date 31 Years Ago and 50 Years Ago: Jim Fixx and Bob Dylan<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a>The Aporetics of Baptism<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a>Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some Suicides<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be mortal is to be subject to death just as to be breakable is to be subject to breakage.  But whereas a wine glass is fragile\/breakable even if there is no future time at which it breaks, a man is mortal only if there is a future time at which he dies. If there … Continue reading “Is a Dead Person Mortal?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aporetics","category-death-and-immortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","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=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}