03665cam a2200685Mu 4500 ocn704257989 OCoLC 20200709055323.0 m d cr |n| 110228s2009 nju o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng pn EBLCP MHW IDEBK OCLCQ JSTOR YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO N$T 741250564 816627362 9781400834600 electronic bk. 1400834600 electronic bk. 1282936158 9781282936157 AU@ 000048822210 (OCoLC)704257989 (OCoLC)741250564 (OCoLC)816627362 350088 (N$T) 22573/cttw0jh JSTOR BD444.J5546 2010 HRAB bicssc REL102000 bisacsh OCC 022000 bisacsh 129 N$TA Johnston, M. (Mark) Surviving Death [electronic resource]. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009. 1 online resource (411 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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. Death. Future life. Philosophy. RELIGION Theology. bisacsh Death. fast (OCoLC)fst00888613 Future life. fast (OCoLC)fst00936730 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation bisacsh Electronic books. Electronic resource. Print version: Johnston, Mark. Surviving Death. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691130125 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=617251 JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rr2p MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=350088 MyiLibrary, Table of contents http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615&ref=toc EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL617251 Ingram Digital eBook Collection IDEB 293615 YBP Library Services YANK 3633669 EBSCOhost EBSC 350088 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50125 50125