Death and the afterlife: a review essay

In Death and the Afterlife (2013), Samuel Scheffler has argued that without the expectation that humanity will survive long after we are gone, without the expectation of a "collective afterlife", many of the things that matter to us would cease to do so. Immortality would not be a good thi...

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Main Author: Davidson, Marc David (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Review
Language:English
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Published: Peeters [2015]
In: Ethical perspectives
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 547-571
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ethics / Hereafter / Nondum conceptus / Death
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
NBQ Eschatology
NCA Ethics
Further subjects:B Book review
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