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Merely Mortal?

[Hardback]

by Antony Flew

    • Author

      Antony Flew

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Prometheus Books

    • Published

      February 2001

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      Product Description

      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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      • Author

        Antony Flew

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Prometheus Books

      • Published

        February 2001

      • Weight

        482g

      • Page Count

        215

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9781573928410

      • ISBN-10

        1573928410

      • Eden Code

        4645889

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      • Author/Creator: Antony Flew

      • ISBN: 9781573928410

      • Publisher: Prometheus Books

      • Release Date: February 2001

      • Weight: 482g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 4645889

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