Leslie Immortality Defended

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8138-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten, E-Book

Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like anafterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why theworld exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well beimmortal in all of three separate ways.
* * Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence,among them, "why does the cosmos exist?", "is there a divine mindor God?", and "in what sense might we have afterlives?"
* Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for areligious affiliation or rejection of modern science
* Explores the ideas of "Einsteinian immortality", the divineafterlife, and the theory of an infinite and divine mind
* Draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, fromancient Greece to the present day, and incorporates up-to-datescientific findings
* Written in a thought-provoking and engaging manner, accessibleto anyone intrigued by the wonder of our being

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leslie, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Pantheism: A Rapid Introduction.
2. Platonic Creation.
3. Divine and Human Minds.
4. Immortality.
5. Existence, Causation, and Life.
Appendix: Brief Summary of the Book.
Bibliography.
Index of Names.
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

John Leslie is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His publications include Value and Existence (1979), Universes (1989), The End of the World: the Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (1996), Infinite Minds (2001), and the edited volume Modern Cosmology and Philosophy (1998).