TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnston,M.
TI  - Surviving Death
SN  - 9781400834600
AV  - BD444.J5546 2010 
U1  - 129 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Death
KW  - Future life
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Reincarnation
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic resource
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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