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    It is not the case that It is not possible to make eternal life desirable by varying one's categorical desires over time.

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    • 1.For an endless life to be desirable, it must clearly be me who lives forever.
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    • 2.For an endless life to be desirable, the state in which I survive should be adequately related to the aims I now have in wanting to survive at all.
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    • 3.If I replace my categorical desires, life under the future desires becomes detached from life under my current categorical desires, violating at least one of these conditions.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Personal identity over time requires psychological continuity via overlapping chains of memory and intention (Parfit, Reasons and Persons).
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    • 2.Radical serial replacement of categorical desires severs these overlapping chains, producing a numerically distinct person rather than a persisting self.
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    • 3.A life desirable to a future person numerically distinct from me cannot satisfy my current rational interest in my own survival.
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    • 1.Categorical desires are not merely contingent preferences but constitutive of the evaluative standpoint from which any life is judged worthwhile (Frankfurt, 'Freedom of the Will').
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    • 2.If the evaluative standpoint itself is serially replaced, no single perspective persists to render the cumulative eternal life coherent or desirable as one life.
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    • 3.A life that is desirable only from successively non-overlapping standpoints is not one desirable life but a sequence of unrelated finite lives, none of which is eternal.
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