Free Download Stephen Cave, "Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization"
English | ISBN: 0307884910 | 2012 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 1482 KB
If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it's cracked up to be.
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it's our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization.
Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone - whether they know it or not-has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only
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