The Logic of Mortality - Hardcover

Flew, Antony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631156283 ISBN 13: 9780631156284

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0631156283
• ISBN 13: 9780631156284
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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