Surviving Death

by Mark D. Johnston

Book Overview

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." Yet, as Johnston shows, all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are either incoherent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691130124
• ISBN13: 9780691130125
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.3"