Defending heaven's desirability
Bernard Williams famously argued that immortality would lead to intolerable tedium. If his conclusion is true, then we ought not desire any sort of blissful-type afterlife (heaven) that precludes death. I reconstruct Williams's argument and examine three possible defeaters for his premises: the...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Religious studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-244 |
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Williams, Bernard 1929-2003
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