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In a remarkable book, surviving death, mark johnston reaches several surprising conclusions about persons and personal identity. James patrick hunt is an englishamerican author of crime thriller novels. Johnstons aim in surviving death, a series of lectures, is to show that there is. In this extraordinary book, mark johnston sets out a new understanding of. Read online, or download in secure pdf or secure epub format in this extraordinary book, mark johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. In the book, johnston looks for and finds a naturalistic sense in which a person could be said to survive death.
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Johnston has written many articles on topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and metaethics and, more recently, two books in philosophy of religion, saving god. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Johnston himself seems determined to apologize for even breathing the word god in the hempel lectures that gave rise to surviving death. Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access. Iscriviti a prime ciao, accedi account e liste accedi account e liste resi e ordini. In this book, mark johnston argues that god needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the undergraduate atheists richard dawkins, christopher hitchens, and sam harris but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself. Princetons mark johnston, author of surviving death, asks. Moreover, it threatens the importance of goodness by severing even the generic connection between goodness and just desert, the very connection that goodness itself demands, not as a motive to be good but as a. Mark johnstons surviving death is an immensely interesting book.
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