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We propose that a significant part of post ageing is therefore revolutionary and heterodoxy and iconoclastic if taken from the stance of the established domain and received view of gerontology. We further propose that there is need for the renaissance of an active philosophical examination of the emergence of post ageing scholarship activities. Whether or not one side can convince the other or win the hearts and minds of the general public, the post ageing inflection point has indeed occurred and there is the need to utilize the full range of philosophical tools at hand (e.g., epistemology, ontology, ethics) to understand the underpinnings of how it came to be, and where it is leading us.
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Felsted, K.F., Wright, S.D. (2014). Philosophical Antecedents for Post Ageing. In: Toward Post Ageing. Healthy Ageing and Longevity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09051-1_11
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