The Illusion of ImmortalityPresents the case for human mortality--the finality of death. But, Lamont argues, the illusion of immortality is an affirmative vision, not a negative one. |
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... Professor Driesch's approach is primarily through biology , in which field he is known as one of the most prominent Vitalists . He tells us that " the essential agents responsible for the formation of an organism are not agents working ...
... Professor Driesch's approach is primarily through biology , in which field he is known as one of the most prominent Vitalists . He tells us that " the essential agents responsible for the formation of an organism are not agents working ...
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... Professor Pratt quotes a believer in personal immortality as follows : " To hold this faith without picturing the nature of the future life I find impos- sible , but I manage with ease and naturalness to keep those mental pictures in a ...
... Professor Pratt quotes a believer in personal immortality as follows : " To hold this faith without picturing the nature of the future life I find impos- sible , but I manage with ease and naturalness to keep those mental pictures in a ...
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... Professor Georgia Harkness : " Admitting frankly the impossibility of applying space imagery to a non - spatial world , we must stop trying to picture its nature in any detail . Some probable things about its nature we can derive from ...
... Professor Georgia Harkness : " Admitting frankly the impossibility of applying space imagery to a non - spatial world , we must stop trying to picture its nature in any detail . Some probable things about its nature we can derive from ...
Contents
The Fundamental Issue | 22 |
The Verdict of Science | 62 |
The Environment of Heaven | 127 |
Copyright | |
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activities after-existence after-life ancient Aristotle become belief in immortality Benedict Spinoza bodily body and personality brain century cerebral cortex Christ Christian Church complete conception conscious Corliss Lamont cortex dead death definite desire dualistic earth earthly emotional eternal etheric etheric body existence experience F. C. S. Schiller fact faith feel forever Fosdick function future George Santayana grave happiness Harry Emerson Fosdick heaven hell hereafter human personality idea of immortality ideal imagine immortality ideas implies individual Jesus John Dewey Kant kind living Lucretius matter means ment mental million mind modern immortalists monistic monistic psychology moral natural body organism personal immortality personal survival philosophy physical Plato possible Professor psychology reason religion religious resurrection Santayana sense Sheol sonality soul specific spirit Spiritualists Struldbrugs supernatural symbolic tality telepathy theory things this-worldly thought tion uncon universe whole worth-while