Where Are the Dead?: Exploring the Idea of an Embodied Afterlife

ISBN-13: 9780367881436 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Peter Moore

Opis

Where are the dead? What are they doing? What kind of a process is dying? What relationships exist among the dead themselves, and between the dead and those in the world they have left behind? Modern philosophers argue that the idea of disembodied survival - to which many believers pay lip service - is incoherent, and that there can be evidence nei

Spis treści

Preface

1 Clarifying the question

2 What could it be like to die?

3 What might it be like to be dead?

4 Locating the afterlife

5 What would the dead be doing?

6 Between the living and the dead

7 Post-mortem identity and continuity

8 Eschatology and the future of the afterlife

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O autorze

Peter Moore took his first degree in English, French and Philosophy at the University of Sheffield (1966); a Diploma in Social Studies at the same University (1967); and completed his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Ninian Smart at the University of Lancaster (1975). He spent most of his academic career at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he introduced the study of world religions, taught a variety of undergraduate courses and supervised research students. In 1990, together with his colleague Dr Leon Schlamm, he created and taught the MA programme in the Study of Mysticism and Religious Experience. Dr Moore also worked as external examiner and academic advisor for a number of UK universities and colleges of higher education. He retired from full-time teaching in 2011.