Immortality
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Immortality

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eBook - ePub

Immortality

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Prometheus
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781616140359
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophical Essays

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. Plato The Release of the Soul from the Chains of the Body
  4. 2. Lucretius The Mind and the Spirit Will Die
  5. 3. Tertullian The Refutation of the Pythagorean Doctrine of Transmigration
  6. 4. St. Thomas Aquinas The Resurrection of Man
  7. 5. René Descartes The Incorporeal Soul and Its Body
  8. 6. John Locke Personal Identity, Consciousness and the Immaterial Substance
  9. 7. Joseph Butler Of a Future Life
  10. 8. David Hume Of Personal Identity
  11. 9. David Hume Of the Immortality of the Soul
  12. 10. Voltaire The Soul, Identity and Immortality
  13. 11. Thomas Reid Of the Nature and Origin of Our Notion of Personal Identity
  14. 12. Immanuel Kant Refutation of Mendelssohn’s Proof of the Permanence of the Soul
  15. 13. Joseph Priestley Materialism, Personal Identity and Life After Death
  16. 14. John Stuart Mill Immortality
  17. 15. William James The Theory of the Soul
  18. 16. Hugh Elliot Tantalus
  19. 17. John Foster The Objections to Epiphenomenalism
  20. 18. Raynor Johnson Preexistence, Reincarnation and Karma
  21. 19. C. J. Ducasse Survival As Transmigration
  22. 20. Paul Edwards Karmic Tribulations
  23. 21. H. H. Price What Kind of Next World?
  24. 22. Antony Flew The Cartesian Assumption
  25. 23. Peter Geach Immortality
  26. 24. John Hick The Recreation of the Psycho-Physical Person
  27. 25. Peter van Inwagen The Possibility of Resurrection
  28. 26. Donald MacKay Computer Software and Life After Death
  29. 27. Paul and Linda Badham The Evidence from Psychical Research
  30. 28. John Beloff Is There Anything Beyond Death? A Parapsychologist’s Summation
  31. 29. A. J. Ayer What I Saw When I Was Dead
  32. 30. C. D. Broad On Survival without a Body
  33. 31. John Hospers Is the Notion of Disembodied Existence Intelligible?
  34. 32. William James Consciousness, the Brain and Immortality
  35. 33. Paul Edwards The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain
  36. 34. Derek Parfit Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
  37. Bibliographical Essay