All religion and much philosophy has been concerned with the
contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. Human beings have
always sought ways to overcome time, and to prove that death is not
the end. This book consists then in an exploration of certain
closely related ideas: personal identity, time, history and our
commitment to the future, and the role of imagination in life.
Warnock argues in particular that the notion of personal
immortality, as it appears in Christian dogma, cannot be taken
literally. Nevertheless, as a metaphor, immortality may illuminate
both our relation with the past, our understanding of the present
and our responsibility for the future. In the course of the
argument, philosophical themes of personal identity, of history,
and of values, are explored, as well as the cognitive content of
the imagination.
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