Death and the Afterlife
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- Jan 1, 2013
- #Philosophy #Death
Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent...
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Number of Pages: 224
ISBN: 0199982503
ISBN-13: 9780199982509
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Feb 4, 2018
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The aim of Scheffler’s study is to assess the assumptions required for us to sustain our confidence in the value and worth of our lives. Scheffler defends the claim that “our confidence that there will be a collective afterlife is, to a much greater extent than a confidence that there will be a personal afterlife, a condition of other things mattering to us here and now.” In a decade when so much philosophy is “academic” and “narrow” (i.e. dry, dull, arcane, etc.), Scheffler’s engagement with a large issue that is of general human importance is refreshing.