Self, God and immortality : a Jamesian investigation /
Can we, who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times, still believe that we as individual persons are immortal? Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Open Access edition. |
| Series: | American philosophy series ;
no. 12. Fordham scholarship online. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE FORDHAM EDITION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. World or Reality as "Fields"
- CHAPTER 2. Toward a Field Model of the Self
- CHAPTER 3. James: Toward a Field-Self
- CHAPTER 4. James: Personal Identity
- CHAPTER 5. James: Full Self and Wider Fields
- CHAPTER 6. James: Self and God
- CHAPTER 7. Immortality: Hope or Hindrance?
- CHAPTER 8. Immortality: A Pragmatic-Processi ve Model
- Concluding Reflections
- NOTES
- Index
