The myth of an afterlife: the case against life after death
"In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided...
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Medienart: | Druck Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield
2015
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In: | Jahr: 2015 |
Bände / Aufsätze: | Bände / Aufsätze anzeigen. |
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Jenseits
/ Nihilismus
B Tod / Jenseits / Jenseitsglaube |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Aufsatzsammlung
B Future Life |
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Zusammenfassung: | "In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive death - in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of "surviving" death - from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife - heaven, hell, karmic rebirth - and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife."-- |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 0810886774 |