Surviving Death Johnston, M. (Mark) creator text Electronic books. Electronic resource. nju Princeton Princeton University Press 2009 monographic eng
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1 online resource (411 pages) 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. 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. Death Future life Philosophy RELIGION Theology Death Future life BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation BD444.J5546 2010 129 Surviving Death Johnston, Mark. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9781400834600 1400834600 22573/cttw0jh JSTOR http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=617251 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rr2p http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=350088 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615&ref=toc http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=617251 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rr2p http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=350088 http://www.myilibrary.com?id=293615&ref=toc EBLCP 110228 20200709055323.0 ocn704257989 eng