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- Title
Permanent Value.
- Authors
FRUGÉ, CHRISTOPHER
- Abstract
Temporal nihilism is the view that our lives will not matter after we die. According to the standard interpretation, this is because our lives will not make a permanent difference. Many who consider the view thus reject it by denying that our lives need to have an eternal impact. However, in this essay, I develop a different formulation of temporal nihilism revolving around the persistence of personal value itself. According to this more powerful conception of nihilism, we do not have personal value after death, so our past life no longer has well-being after we die. The standard objections to the standard interpretation do not apply to this more nihilistic nihilism. I offer a new response according to which personal value persists after death because the person continues to exist.
- Subjects
NIHILISM (Philosophy); WELL-being
- Publication
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, p356
- ISSN
2053-4477
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/apa.2021.16