The Philosophy of Life Before Death and Afterwards

Introduction and Metaphysics

Acknowledgements

This philosophy book was an honor to think about and write. Years of thinking, postulating, writing and ambitious attempts at writing philosophy have evolved into this nonfiction work. I'd like to thank first all the contemporary authors, scientists, philosophers and engineers who are featured in the book.

Thanks to:

David Pearce

Lawrence Krauss

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Johann Hari

Vernor Vinge

Nick Bostrom

John Teasdale

David Rudiak

Alejandro Rojas

Alan Guthe

Andrei Linde

James Kozubek

Benjamin Goertzel

Secondly, I'd like to thank my family and friends. You were always there for me and supportive of me. I appreciate your love, dedication and support. I will always remember you and so will history. Your names will forever be in this book as reminders to the world of the people who helped me in struggling times and were there for both the worst and best moments of our lives (for as long as I've been alive and known my family and friends.) Thank you so much, I love you dearly and care for you.

Joao & Rejane Lasheras

Juan Lasheras

Jennifer Fernandez

Ruben Moreno

Third and finally, I'd like to thank all the authors of the research studies, news articles in which I cited you.

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The Philosophy of Life Before Death And Afterwards: New Treatises for A Dying World

Copyright © John Lasheras 2018

Foreword: A Dying World

This philosophy book was designed to be full of short and easy to read treatises, yet still be in its totality, impactful and thought provoking. I have split the book into multiple sections, namely being, Ethics, Metaphysics, Politics, Epistemology, Logic, Natural Philosophy and Miscellaneous. Some sections have more content than others, but I've tried to cover my take, my new philosophical ideas, in the framework of philosophy itself. I want to make this purchase for you worth your money and time, as we live in a frenetic world of headlines and bylines with no time to remember either. The content and details of life are lost in the big picture, as well as the faces behind the ideas of today's philosophy.

The book features old, modern philosophers, and political theorists. It consists mostly of my own philosophy which I've painstakingly tried to innovate as a leap forward with new ideas, new takes on old ideas and a combination of the two. There are forty nine treatises in the book, all consisting between roughly 1000 and at most 3000 words, except for some of the miscellaneous essays. I feel as if philosophers tend to expound in length their philosophy while sacrificing brevity. Sometimes, a three-hundred-page book on one topic can get tiresome and boring. Readers often must make notations in their books, recall prior chapters through their notation and the big picture of the main thesis is lost in extensive elaboration.