Thinking Well About Aging with Prof. Ezekiel Emanuel

This event, held by the Bioethics and Law Center at Tel Aviv University " focused on " ADOPTING THE COMPLETE LIVES PERSPECTIVE Prof. Ezekiel Emanuel, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Following a rich tradition in philosophy from Aristotle to Rawls and Nagel, Prof. Emanuel has advocated making ethical, justice, and other evaluations over a complete life, not based on momentary situations. The Complete Lives Perspective suggests that assessments of a good life or fairness are properly made at the end of life. This has implications for individuals in emphasizing the importance of taking a death bed perspective—having no—or few-regrets about how one lived on one’s death bed. This requires living intentionally. This perspective also plays down the urgent in favor of the important. TEMPORAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE GOOD LIFE Prof. Yechiel Michael Barilan, School of Medicine and the Bioethics and Law Center, TAU The question of the good life has two faces. The first is the moral one, the personal inquiry about the good life and how to make wise choices about life. The second face is about social policy, which is the relative weight given to different perspectives on life, and to different voices coming from the whole range of the life cycle. Following this, Prof. Barilan will suggest a framework for thinking that seeks value on being present in significant engagements: either created by the person, or by others who incorporate the person in their projects. NOT HAVING EXHAUSTED LIFE Prof. Shlomo Giora Shoham, Faculty of Law,Tel Aviv University Prof. Shoham had an eventful life in his 94 years. When discussing life at old age, he states “I feel that I have not exhausted it yet”. Every Wednesday evening he participates in a seminar at the School of Medicine. His younger friend, Dr. Oren Asman, on his behalf, shares some of their conversations, with some thoughts and ideas about Aging and the Full life from a very personal perspective.

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