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Self, God and Immortality : A Jamesian Investigation / Eugene Fontinell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823285150
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 218
LOC classification:
  • B945.J24
Online resources:
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
Title is part of eBook package: NYUP / FUP Complete eBook-Package 2019Summary: Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency 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 we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.
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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

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Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency 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 we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community.

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