{"id":673,"date":"2012-05-30T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=673"},"modified":"2020-05-20T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:36:14","slug":"immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stephen Cave\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>John Gray<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/events\/All%20Events\/Podcast\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 30 May 2012, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<br \/>\nOld Theatre, Old Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephencave.com\/\"><strong>Stephen Cave<\/strong><\/a>, philosopher and writer. He is the author of\u00a0<em>Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/johngray\"><strong>John Gray<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, LSE. He is the author of\u00a0<em>The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nChair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/glendinning\/home.aspx\"><strong>Simon Glendinning<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Cave\/\u00a0John Gray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[54],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics"],"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-aR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11125,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/11125"}],"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=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}