Joel Feinberg : The Nature and Value of Life

What I expect to learn :

I expect that I can value the Nature of life of others.

Review :

The emerging discourse concerning the desirability of intervention in senescence to achieve

radical life extension for persons has featured some striking blurring in traditional liberal and
conservative commitments and positions. This affords an opportunity for re-evaluation of these
same. The canonical conservative view of the intrinsic value of life is re-examined and found
primarily to involve a denial of human prerogative, rather than an active underwriting of the value
of life extension. A critique is offered of an attempted argument against aging intervention from a
proto-conservative worry about a purported threat to human nature. Immortality is found to be a
red herring, but a revealing one. Further, the classic liberal view is examined and found wanting
in terms of the gravity of its own commitment to, and fullness of its account of the value of life,
and the value of life extension. An analysis of the liberal conception of personhood is proposed
that both defines persons necessarily as processes, and demonstrates the inalienable quality of
the value of life extension to persons so defined.

What I have learned :

I learned that the opportunity for re-evaluation can be found primarily to involve denial.

Interogative Questions

1.) What is Value of Life

2.) What is Nature
3.) What is Claim-Rights
4.) What is value of rights
5.) What is emerging discourse