Volume 8, Number 2
October 2014
DISCUSSION

Flourishing and Finitude

Volume 8, Number 2, October 2014, Pages 1–7
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v8i2.163
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Abstract

It would be terrible for us if humanity ceased to exist after we all die. But of course, eventually humanity will go out of existence. Does this result in a vicious regress if our flourishing hangs on what happens after us? Mark Johnston thinks so. In this note, I explain how Johnston’s objection can be avoided. Briefly, our activities have a meaning horizon that extends for some generations after us. What matters is that we make a positive difference to the lives of those generations, not that they themselves necessarily flourish.
Copyright © 2014 Antti Kauppinen
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