Surviving Death

by Mark D. Johnston

Book Overview

Why supernatural beliefs are at odds with a true understanding of the afterlife

In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death.

Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "something in death that is better for the good than for the bad."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130132
• ISBN13: 9780691130132
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"