Immortality Defended
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Author | : John Leslie |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405181389 |
Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like anafterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why theworld exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well beimmortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence,among them, "why does the cosmos exist?", "is there a divine mindor God?", and "in what sense might we have afterlives?" Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for areligious affiliation or rejection of modern science Explores the ideas of "Einsteinian immortality", the divineafterlife, and the theory of an infinite and divine mind Draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, fromancient Greece to the present day, and incorporates up-to-datescientific findings Written in a thought-provoking and engaging manner, accessibleto anyone intrigued by the wonder of our being
Author | : J. F. Joy |
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Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Immortality |
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Author | : Ray D. Madoff |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0300163274 |
This book takes a riveting look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. While American law provides virtually no protections for the interests we hold most dear—our bodies and our reputations—when it comes to property interests, the American dead have greater control than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, these rights are growing daily. From grave robbery to Elvis impersonators, Madoff shows how the law of the dead has a direct impact on how we live. Madoff examines how the rising power of the American dead enables the deceased to exert control over their wealth forever through grandiose schemes like "dynasty trusts" and perpetual private charitable foundations and to control their creative works and identities well into the unforeseeable future. Madoff explores how the law of the dead can, in essence, extend the reach of life by granting virtual immortality to individuals. All of this comes, Madoff contends, at real costs imposed on the living.
Author | : Herman Charles Hoskier |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Immortality |
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Author | : Michael Cholbi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-12-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783483857 |
A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us – and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.
Author | : Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004215050 |
This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.
Author | : Paul Edwards |
Publisher | : Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-12-02 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1616140356 |
Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and contemporary authors who address the topics of immortality, soul and body, transmigration, materialism, epiphenomenalism, physical research and parapsychology, reincarnation, disembodied existence, and much more. In addition to a 70-page editorial introduction offering an in-depth discussion of the forms which belief in immortality has taken, this volume includes selections from Thomas Aquinas, A.J. Ayer, Paul and Linda Badham, John Beloff, C.D. Broad, Joseph Butler, Rene Descartes, C.J. Ducasse, Paul Edwards, Hugh Elliot, Antony Flew, John Foster, Peter Geach, John Hick, John Hospers, David Hume, William James, Raynor Johnson, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Lucretius, Donald MacKay, John Stuart Mill, Derek Parfit, Plato, H.H. Price, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Reid, Tertullian, Peter van Inwagen, and Voltaire. Also included is a detailed annotated bibliography.
Author | : Benjamin Bruxvoort Lipscomb |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2010-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110220040 |
Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a “final judgment” on individual behavior. Some scholars read the history of moral philosophy as a gradual disentangling of our moral commitments from such beliefs. Kant is often given an important place in their narratives, despite the fact that Kant himself asserts that some of such beliefs are necessary (necessary, at least, from the practical point of view). Many contemporary neo-Kantian moral philosophers have embraced these “disentangling” narratives or, at any rate, have minimized the connection of Kant’s practical philosophy with controversial metaphysical commitments ‐ even with Kant’s transcendental idealism. This volume re-evaluates those interpretations. It is arguably the first collection to systematically explore the metaphysical commitments central to Kant’s practical philosophy, and thus the connections between Kantian ethics, his philosophy of religion, and his epistemological claims concerning our knowledge of the supersensible.
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Total Pages | : 554 |
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Author | : New Hampshire State Library |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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