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Williams's claim that immortality cannot be made desirable is not established.

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1.It is not obvious that eternal life is undesirable if it involves changing our categorical desires and characters.
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2.Such changes need not violate Williams's two conditions for the desirability of continued life.
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Response to Williams's claim about immortality

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Williams’s claim that immortality cannot be made desirable remains controversial. It is not obvious that eternal life is undesirable if it involves changing our categorical desires and characters (insofar as our characters are defined by the desires). Nor is it obvious that such changes must violate Williams’s two conditions for the desirability of continued life. Williams seems to think that the individual who is changed in this way will not clearly be the same person as before, but he stops short of saying that it clearly will not be the same person (indeed, he defends a bodily continuity cr...

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Validity: The premises directly challenge Williams's claim by arguing that the changes involved in immortality need not undermine its desirability, which is an attack on Williams's conclusion that immortality cannot be made desirable—and both premises are explicitly stated in the source passage.

Confidence: High confidence; the passage explicitly frames these as objections to Williams.

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Type: claim
Perspectives: 1 (0 for, 1 against)
Edits: 1 edit