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Surviving Death
Mark Johnston
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Description for Surviving Death
Paperback. Sets out an understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a naturalistic account of surviving death. This title shows different theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent or at odds with the workings of nature. Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series. Num Pages: 408 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: HPK; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
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 philosophical study of the ... Read more
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 philosophical study of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
Condition
New
Weight
580g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691130132
SKU
V9780691130132
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About Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of "Saving God: Religion after Idolatry" (Princeton).
Reviews for Surviving Death
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers "[P]acked with illuminating philosophical reflection on the question of what we are, and what it is for us to persist over time
on the relations among selves, persons, human beings, bodies and souls."
Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement "[Johnston] reveals himself to be an engaging wit, ... Read more
on the relations among selves, persons, human beings, bodies and souls."
Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement "[Johnston] reveals himself to be an engaging wit, ... Read more