The logic of mortality
著者
書誌事項
The logic of mortality
Blackwell, 1987
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注記
Bibliography: p. [185]-195
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Proceeding from the truism that all men are mortal, philosophers have employed various strategies to suggest that all men are also immortal. In this book these strategies are categorized as: the "Way of the Astral Body", the "Platonic-Cartesian Way" and the "Reconstitutionist Way". By examining and questioning the assumptions on which these theories are based, the author presents an analysis of human mortality and identity. He also examines other bodies of knowledge which bear on the question, such as parapsychology, and argues that the history of discussion about non-corporeal identity has been the history of negative definition and that people are only able to describe what such a state is not.
目次
- Three ways to survival
- Plato - from pre-existence to immortality, attempted proofs of immortality, intimations of immortality
- Aristotle and Aquinas
- the Cartesian turn
- personal identity - conceivable differences?, uniting memories?
- substances, stuff and consciousness
- the significance of parapsychology.
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