Death and the Afterlife |
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| Author:
| Scheffler, Samuel |
| Editor:
| Kolodny, Niko |
| Series title: | The Berkeley Tanner Lectures |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-046917-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.99 |
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.
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.