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Merely Mortal? - Can You Survive Your Own Death? (Hardcover)
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Merely Mortal? - Can You Survive Your Own Death? (Hardcover)
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Despite the perennial hope of life beyond the grave, Flew shows
that there are insuperable difficulties in elucidating post-mortem
survival on a rational basis. He analyses the three ways that
philosophers of the past have attempted to get around these
difficulties: the 'reconstitutionist way' (miraculous reassembly of
our deceased bodies at some future time, such as the Last
Judgement); the 'way of the astral body' (a sort of duplicate,
undetectable 'body', which detaches itself from the material body
after death); and, the 'Platonic-Cartesian way' (an incorporeal
mind or soul containing a person's identity which lives on after
death). The main problem, says Flew, is the impossibility of
logically demonstrating how a person surviving death in any
imagined altered state could identify him- or herself as the same
person who had previously lived a flesh-and-blood life on the
Earth. Flew reviews both the classic arguments of Plato, Aristotle,
Aquinas, and Descartes, as well as the modern findings of
parapsychology, elucidating this complex issue with logical rigor
and engaging wit.
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