What really matters
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If our lives were truly horrible and the prospects of their getting better hopelessly dim, we might not want to continue. Fortunately, most people are not in such dire straights. Most of us, as we say, " want to live " (henceforth, to survive). Not only do we want to survive, but under normal, relatively favorable circumstances most of us, it seems, knows well enough what it would mean to survive. What it would mean is that one has a continuing opportunity, under circumstances that one would regard as at least minimally acceptable (that is, as better than death), to have experiences and to act in the world. But when, even under normal, relatively favorable circumstances, we say that we want to survive, what is it that we really want? The obvious answer is that what we really want is simply to survive. Under such circumstances, over relatively short temporal intervals, and for practical purposes, there is nothing mysterious about this answer. When under such circumstances we want to survive, what we really want is simply to survive, and usually that is what we get. Normally we do not change that much from moment to moment. So, for most of us, surviving for a relatively short time under normal, relatively favorable circumstances simply means continuing pretty much as we are right now. However, even under normal, relatively favorable circumstances, surviving for a long time–say sixty years–
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 162 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008