Saturday, December 15, 2012

Philosophy Wire: Living longer, being sicker, the purpose of life…

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-12-15]: The greatest ever study on Disease has shown that humans are progressively living longer, but while being sicker. [source: 1, 2] Medicine has the wrong target because humans have the wrong goal. Our purpose is not to live more. As the Harmonia Philosophica motto at the bottom of the page says, the purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things…

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