ImmortalityIs there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and contemporary authors who address the topics of immortality, soul and body, transmigration, materialism, epiphenomenalism, physical research and parapsychology, reincarnation, disembodied existence, and much more. In addition to a 70-page editorial introduction offering an in-depth discussion of the forms which belief in immortality has taken, this volume includes selections from Thomas Aquinas, A.J. Ayer, Paul and Linda Badham, John Beloff, C.D. Broad, Joseph Butler, Rene Descartes, C.J. Ducasse, Paul Edwards, Hugh Elliot, Antony Flew, John Foster, Peter Geach, John Hick, John Hospers, David Hume, William James, Raynor Johnson, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Lucretius, Donald MacKay, John Stuart Mill, Derek Parfit, Plato, H.H. Price, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Reid, Tertullian, Peter van Inwagen, and Voltaire. Also included is a detailed annotated bibliography. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
INTRODUCTION CONTENTS | 2 |
The Astral Body | 19 |
Can Matter Think? | 37 |
The Resurrection of the Body | 53 |
God and Survival | 67 |
Lucretius The Mind and the Spirit | 83 |
St Thomas Aquinas The Resurrection of Man | 91 |
John Stuart Mill Immortality | 172 |
Hugh Elliot Tantalus | 184 |
Paul Edwards Karmic Tribulations | 200 |
H H Price What Kind of Next World? | 213 |
Antony Flew The Cartesian Assumption | 220 |
John Hick The Recreation of | 235 |
Peter van Inwagen The Possibility | 242 |
Paul and Linda Badham The Evidence from Psychical | 250 |
René Descartes The Incorporeal Soul | 100 |
John Locke Personal Identity | 109 |
Joseph Butler Of a Future Life | 121 |
David Hume Of Personal Identity | 130 |
Voltaire The Soul Identity | 141 |
Thomas Reid Of the Nature and Origin | 148 |
Immanuel Kant Refutation of Mendelssohns | 155 |
John Beloff Is There Anything Beyond | 259 |
A J Ayer What I Saw When I | 269 |
John Hospers Is the Notion | 279 |
Paul Edwards The Dependence | 292 |
Derek Parfit Divided Minds and | 308 |
Bibliographical Essay | 316 |
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