Surviving Death / / Mark Johnston.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter One. Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?
- Chapter Two. On the Impossibility of My Own Death
- Chapter Three. From Anatta to Agape
- Chapter Four. What Is Found at the Center?
- Chapter Five. A New Refutation of Death
- Index