Immortality Defended
Why does the cosmos exist? Could we be parts of an infinite or divine mind, as pantheists believe? If so, might we have afterlives? In Immortality Defended, John Leslie, renowned philosopher of religion and cosmology, defends pantheism and three distinct ways in which we could be immortal. Combining a creation story told by Plato with the ideas of Spinoza, this book tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence. It explores Einsteinian immortality inside an eternally existing four-dimensional whole; the nature of an infinite mind which lives the lives of everybody; and the possibility of an afterlife inside such a mind. Its ar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-8138-9
- EAN: 9781405181389
- Produktnummer: 13850248
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 291 KB
Über den Autor
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).
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