{"id":11045,"date":"2020-05-19T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:18:32","slug":"from-the-vaults-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Stephen Cave\/ John Gray<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/events\/All%20Events\/Podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every human culture has claimed some way of defeating death, whether through mummification, reincarnation, or resurrection when the last trumpet sounds. In our age of failed ideologies and empty churches, many now hope science will provide the route to everlasting life. Can it? Should we even want it to? And is the will to live forever, which has so shaped the human story, a blessing or a curse?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephencave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Cave<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor, <em>Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/johngray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Gray<\/a><br \/>\nEmeritus Professor of European Thought, LSE<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/glendinning\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Glendinning<\/a><br \/>\nProfessor of European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE &amp; Director, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 30 May 2012 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Cave and John Gray ponder immortality. Might science provide the route to everlasting life? Should we even want it to? And is the will to live forever a blessing or a curse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/4-lawki.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2S9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}