Overview
- Gives a completely fresh look at an age-old question: what happens after we die?
- Shows that even in a universe without God, death doesn’t consign us to oblivion
- Suggests that knowing that there is naturalistic afterlife gives us a powerful reason to do our best to make things better while we still are alive
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die? In secular thought, the standard answer is simple: we disappear into oblivion. David Harmon takes us in a different direction, by making the case that a nonconscious portion of our personality survives death—literally, not figuratively—and explains how this kind of naturalistic afterlife can be emotionally relevant to us while we are still living. Combining insights from the arts, history, philosophy, and science, a compelling argument takes shape for an afterlife without God.
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About the author
David Harmon is an independent researcher who writes about protected places, biocultural diversity, and secular values. He is the author of In Light of Our Differences: How Diversity in Nature and Culture Makes Us Human, among other books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Naturalistic Afterlife
Book Subtitle: Evolution, Ordinary Existence, Eternity
Authors: David Harmon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57978-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57977-1Published: 11 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86294-1Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57978-8Published: 01 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 199
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Man, Secularism, Neurosciences, General Psychology