{"id":2340,"date":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/to-secure-the-future-of-the-human-species-we-must-colonise-another-planet-discuss-the-philosophical-and-ethical-implications-of-this-statement\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"to-secure-the-future-of-the-human-species-we-must-colonise-another-planet-discuss-the-philosophical-and-ethical-implications-of-this-statement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2021\/01\/12\/to-secure-the-future-of-the-human-species-we-must-colonise-another-planet-discuss-the-philosophical-and-ethical-implications-of-this-statement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To secure the future of the human species, we must colonise another planet.&#8221; Discuss the philosophical and ethical implications of this statement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The human species faces three key threats that could lead to our extinction: virus threats, nuclear warfare and overpopulation. In order to secure the future of our species, there is a question as to whether we leave earth and colonise another planet. This essay examines that question with a central focus on Kant\u2019s theory of duty and Kierkegaard\u2019s idea that we must act on the strength of the absurd. It also uses value theory and Kierkegaard\u2019s \u201cteleological suspension of the ethical\u201d to show that we can permissibly leave earth\u2019s nature behind us. The argument that will be proposed throughout this essay is that, as a species, we have a moral obligation to leave our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archie Fowler, 2021, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,22,128],"tags":[21,270,4],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-311","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-ethics","tag-humanity","tag-kierkegaard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}