- altruism, civilization, eudaemonics, existential threats
Why we should organize our plans to include the well-being people 10s or even 100s of generations into the future, and how we should go about doing that kind of planning.
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Contemporary, spare, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- William MacAskill
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Oneworld, Basic Books, Oneworld Publications
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781541604032
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First sentence
“Imagine living, in order of birth, through the life of every human being who has ever lived.”
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