Immortality

Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and contemporary authors who address the topics of immortality soul and body transmigration materialism epiphenomenalism physical research and parapsychology reincarnation disembodied existence and much more.In addition to a 70-page editorial introduction offering an in-depth discussion of the forms which belief in immortality has taken this volume includes selections from Thomas Aquinas A.J. Ayer Paul and Linda Badham John Beloff C.D. Broad Joseph Butler Rene Descartes C.J. Ducasse Paul Edwards Hugh Elliot Antony Flew John Foster Peter Geach John Hick John Hospers David Hume William James Raynor Johnson Immanuel Kant John Locke Lucretius Donald MacKay John Stuart Mill Derek Parfit Plato H.H. Price Joseph Priestley Thomas Reid Tertullian Peter van Inwagen and Voltaire. Also included is a detailed annotated bibliography.