A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality write by John Perry. This book was released on 1978-03-15. A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination. --David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College
Personal Immortality
Personal Immortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Personal Immortality write by Abp. Richard Downey. This book was released on 1927. Personal Immortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Self, God and Immortality
Self, God and Immortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self, God and Immortality write by Eugene Fontinell. This book was released on 2018-09-18. Self, God and Immortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.
The Belief in Personal Immortality
The Belief in Personal Immortality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Belief in Personal Immortality write by Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes. This book was released on 1913. The Belief in Personal Immortality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
John Locke and Personal Identity
John Locke and Personal Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Locke and Personal Identity write by K. Joanna S. Forstrom. This book was released on 2011-10-27. John Locke and Personal Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most influential debates in John Locke's work is the problem of personal identity over time. This problem is that of how a person at one time is the same person later in time, and so can be held responsible for past actions. The time of most concern for Locke is that of the general resurrection promised in the New Testament. Given the turbulence of the Reformation and the formation of new approaches to the Bible, many philosophers and scientists paid careful attention to emerging orthodoxies or heterodoxies about death. Here K. Joanna S. Forstrom examines the interrelated positions of Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Henry More and Robert Boyle in their individual contexts and in Locke's treatment of them. She argues that, in this way, we can better understand Locke and his position on personal identity and immortality. Once his unique take is understood and grounded in his own theological convictions (or lack thereof), we can better evaluate Locke and defend him against classic objections to his thought.
