Image from Google Jackets

Surviving Death [electronic resource].

By: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (411 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400834600
  • 1400834600
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Surviving Death.DDC classification:
  • 129
LOC classification:
  • BD444.J5546 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
00JohnstonFM.i_xiv-revised; 01JohnstonCH01a.001_040; 02JohnstonCH01b.041_080; 03JohnstonCH01c.081_125; 04JohnstonCH02.126_188.indd; 05JohnstonCH03.189_240.indd; 06JohnstonCH04a.241_271.indd; 07JohnstonCH04b.272_304.indd; 08JohnstonCH05a.305_341; 08JohnstonCH05b.342_378; 09JohnstonINDEX. 379_394.indd.
Summary: In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "something in death that is better for the good than for the bad." Yet, as Johnston shows, all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent or at odds with the workings of nature. These supernaturalist pictures of the rewards for goodness also obscure a striking consilience between the ph.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

00JohnstonFM.i_xiv-revised; 01JohnstonCH01a.001_040; 02JohnstonCH01b.041_080; 03JohnstonCH01c.081_125; 04JohnstonCH02.126_188.indd; 05JohnstonCH03.189_240.indd; 06JohnstonCH04a.241_271.indd; 07JohnstonCH04b.272_304.indd; 08JohnstonCH05a.305_341; 08JohnstonCH05b.342_378; 09JohnstonINDEX. 379_394.indd.

In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "something in death that is better for the good than for the bad." Yet, as Johnston shows, all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent or at odds with the workings of nature. These supernaturalist pictures of the rewards for goodness also obscure a striking consilience between the ph.

00JohnstonFM.i_xiv-revised; 01JohnstonCH01a.001_040; 02JohnstonCH01b.041_080; 03JohnstonCH01c.081_125; 04JohnstonCH02.126_188.indd; 05JohnstonCH03.189_240.indd; 06JohnstonCH04a.241_271.indd; 07JohnstonCH04b.272_304.indd; 08JohnstonCH05a.305_341; 08JohnstonCH05b.342_378; 09JohnstonINDEX. 379_394.indd.

Print version record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.