Death and the Afterlife |
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Author:
| Scheffler, Samuel |
Editor:
| Kolodny, Niko |
Series title: | The Berkeley Tanner Lectures |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-998250-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $54.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.