info@woodslane.com.au
Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

WOODSLANE

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9781666911145 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Immortality and the Existence of God

Reformulating the Arguments of Plato, Anselm, and Goedel
Description
Author
Biography
Table of
Contents
Google
Preview
Immortality and the Existence of God: Reformulating the Arguments of Plato, Anselm, and Goedel defends a modern version of Plato's argument for the immortality of the soul. The self is essentially conscious and hence essentially living. It is therefore "deathless" and cannot receive death. But then, it also cannot become something else, nor can it be destroyed, since that would be receiving death also. So, the self or immortal, and immaterial. The book then considers materialist theories of the mind and rejects them. It formulates an argument from introspection which the author believes establishes substance dualism. The argument for immortality and the Ontological Argument for the existence of God are parallel in that attempt to establish the existence of necessary beings. Since immortality makes sense within a theistic context, the second half of the book defends a version of Goedel's Ontological Argument for God's existence, utilizing experience of the moral good and that mutual entailment of the attributes of God to argue that these attributes, including necessary existence, are logically coherent. In the final chapter, the author uses the central arguments in the book to support accounts of the afterlife from those who have had near-death experiences.
David Apolloni is professor emeritus of religion and philosophy at Augsburg University in Minneapolis.
Introduction Part 1 Immortality Chapter 1 Immortality Chapter 2 A Preliminary Defense of Dualism Chapter 3 Substance Dualism: An Argument from Introspection Part 2 God Chapter 4 An Ontological Argument Chapter 5 Anselm's Proslogion 3 Argument and Its Successors Chapter 6 Goedel Chapter 7 The Ontological Argument Further Developed Chapter 8 A Life After This One? Conclusion Bibliography Index
Google Preview content