Death and the afterlife
We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a 'collective afterlife' in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2014, 2014
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| Series: | The Berkeley Tanner lectures / The Berkeley Tanner lectures
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a 'collective afterlife' in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel Scheffler maintains that this assumption plays a surprising - indeed astonishing - role in our lives |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780199369973 |