Johnston, M. <br/><br/>
Surviving Death  [electronic resource]. 

 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  2009. 
 - 1 online resource (411 pages) 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400834600 1400834600 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/cttw0jh  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death.<br/>Future life.<br/>Philosophy.<br/>RELIGION--Theology.<br/>Death.<br/>Future life.<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic resource.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD444.J5546 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>129