Pseudo-platonic immortality: Axiochus and its Posterity in Humanism

L'Chaim and its limits: why not immortality?

Policymaking for posterity

Policymaking for posterity involves current decisions with distant consequences. Contrary to conventional prescriptions, we conclude that the greater wealth of future generations may strengthen the case for preserving environmental amenities; lower discount rates should be applied to the far future, and special effort should be made to avoid actions that impose costs on future generations. Post...

Immortality.

“Is death necessary?“, asked biologist G. R. Taylor and stated that in 1968 in the USA alone more than a thousand teams of scientists were working on the issue of growing old and the problem of death. Some people are frozen at their death. They want to be revived as soon as a cure for their disease or the aging process has been found. Most of humanity seems to have the desire to live forever. M...

For all posterity

There can be little in common between most natural historians and the recently emerging creationists who wish to deny evolution. But one crumb of comfort is the creationists’ wish to create a ‘museum’ as is the case in Kentucky. At least one word has not been devalued by their agenda. With museums under increasing financial, cultural and managerial pressures, this status is at least cheering fo...

Evaluating physicians' professionalism and humanism: the case for humanism "connoisseurs".

Physicians' professionalism and humanism have become central foci of the efforts of medical educators as the public, various accrediting and licensing agencies, and the profession itself have expressed concerns about the apparent erosion of physicians' competency in these aspects of the art, rather than the science, of medicine. Of the many obstacles to enhancing trainees' skills in these domai...