Institute for experimental Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics, Christian-Albrecht's-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2022 Jun 9;44(2):29. doi: 10.1007/s40656-022-00504-z.
Against the backdrop of emerging medical technologies that promise transgression of temporal limits, this paper aims to show the importance that an individual lifetime's finitude and fugacity have for the question of the good life. The paper's first section examines how the passing of an individual's finite lifetime can be experienced negatively, and thus cause "suffering from the passing of time." The second section is based on a sociological analysis within the conceptual framework of individualization and capitalism, which characterizes many modern individualized and consumerist societies and explains how the described problem of time's passage is particularly relevant today. The paper then proceeds to show and discuss how individuals employ various, primarily medical, enhancement-technologies like social egg freezing, anti-aging-medicine and physical- and neuro-enhancement in an attempt to overcome time's passing. Finally, the paper seeks to explain why such attempts fail and, moreover, why it is exactly the awareness of time's passing that can constitute a prerequisite for a good life.
在新兴医疗技术承诺突破时间限制的背景下，本文旨在展示个体生命的有限性和短暂性对美好生活问题的重要性。本文的第一节探讨了个体有限生命的流逝如何被负面体验，从而导致“对时间流逝的痛苦”。第二节基于个体性和资本主义的概念框架内的社会学分析，该框架描述了许多现代个体化和消费主义社会，并解释了描述的时间流逝问题为何在当今尤为相关。本文接着展示和讨论了个体如何使用各种主要的医疗增强技术，如社交卵子冷冻、抗衰老医学和身体及神经增强，试图克服时间的流逝。最后，本文试图解释为什么这些尝试会失败，而且，为什么正是对时间流逝的认识才能构成美好生活的前提。
