Persons and Immortality /

Persons and Immortality /

The religious belief in personal immortality depends on the evidence for the existence of God, an immaterial soul or mind, and human nature. We also need to support the view that God will always want to maintain relationships with us in the afterlife. So, immortality is a hard sell. The suffering of...

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Main Author: Bryson, Kenneth A. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1999.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 77.

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Immortality.

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Call Number: BT921.2

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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction
  • ONE Personal Identity
  • TWO The No-Person View
  • THREE The Existentialists
  • FOUR Persons Exist in Relationships
  • FIVE Persons as Correlates of Good and Evil
  • SIX Persons as Correlates of Others
  • SEVEN Persons as Correlates of Being's Unconcealment
  • EIGHT Persons as Correlates of God
  • NINE Framing Reality: Knowledge and Beliefs
  • TEN Descartes and Meyerson
  • ELEVEN The Technocratic Mentality
  • TWELVE Persons and Morality
  • THIRTEEN The Science, Technology, Society Movement
  • FOURTEEN A New Paradigm: The Merger of Science and Religion
  • FIFTEEN A Possible Eschatology
  • Works Cited
  • About the Author
  • Index.