How to Live Given the Certainty of Death - Lecture 23

Explore the philosophical implications of mortality in this thought-provoking 47-minute lecture from Yale University's PHIL 176 course on Death. Delve into profound questions about how to live meaningfully in the face of inevitable death, setting and achieving goals within time constraints, and the impact of mortality on the quality of our work and accomplishments. Examine various perspectives on life's purpose, including the pursuit of semi-immortality through achievements and the Buddhist view of life as suffering. Engage with challenging concepts such as the value of quantity versus quality of life, and how the awareness of death shapes our decision-making process in determining what is truly worth doing.

- Chapter 1. How Carefully Should We Live? .
- Chapter 2. Time Constraints and Goals: Finding Appropriate Contents for Life .
- Chapter 3. Quantity of Life: The More, the Better? .
- Chapter 4. Semi-Immortality through Accomplishments .
- Chapter 5. Life Is Suffering: An Alternative Approach to Living .