Morris Tim
Perspect Biol Med. 2020;63(1):195-206. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2020.0014.
In their recent book Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret (2017), Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore consider their subject from two different personal and professional perspectives (philosophy and law, respectively) through the lenses of eight different topics: domination and control; forced retirement; friendship; the human body as it ages, primarily in aesthetic terms; backward-looking emotions; love in the later stages of life; wealth inequities among those who are older; and legacies. Yet they overlook other parts of the aging process that can be approached "thoughtfully," most importantly what I have termed the existential parts of aging, such as senescence; the "medicalization" of life; the issue of where, how, and with whom one will live in one's later years; and the family dynamics that assist in and impinge on the aging process. I explore these existential dimensions through several other writings on aging, as well as through my own experience.
在他们最近出版的《深思熟虑地变老：关于退休、浪漫、皱纹与遗憾的对话》（2017年）一书中，玛莎·C·努斯鲍姆和索尔·莱莫尔从两个不同的个人和专业视角（分别是哲学和法律），通过八个不同的主题探讨了他们的研究对象：支配与控制；强制退休；友谊；人体衰老，主要从美学角度；怀旧情绪；晚年的爱情；老年人之间的财富不平等；以及遗产。然而，他们忽略了变老过程中其他可以“深思熟虑”探讨的部分，最重要的是我所说的变老的存在主义部分，比如衰老；生活的“医学化”；一个人晚年将住在哪里、如何生活以及与谁一起生活的问题；以及影响变老过程的家庭动态。我通过其他几篇关于变老的文章以及我自己的经历来探讨这些存在主义层面。
