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Immortality Defended Relié – 11 mai 2007
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- Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée112 pages
- LangueAnglais
- ÉditeurWiley–Blackwell
- Date de publication11 mai 2007
- Dimensions14.78 x 1.27 x 22.35 cm
- ISBN-101405162031
- ISBN-13978-1405162036
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Revue de presse
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS
"I believe Leslie will be remembered one hundred or two hundred years from now as one of the most unique, philosophically fundamental, and interesting thinkers of our time."
Quentin Smith, Western Michigan University
"This is an admirable piece of philosophical speculation, in the grand manner of great philosophers in the past, but informed by modern cosmology."
J J C Smart, Monash University
Thought–provoking useful to both the professional philosopher and to one just starting .Touches on a variety of topics and is exceptionally clear. Religious Studies Review
Leslie has articulated and defended the great subjects in the history of philosophy: God, the self, the nature and origin of the cosmos, value, and immortality. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Combining a creation story told by Plato with the ideas of Spinoza, this book tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence. It explores Einsteinian immortality inside an eternally existing four–dimensional whole; the nature of an infinite mind which lives the lives of everybody; and the possibility of an afterlife inside such a mind. Its arguments are drawn from contemporary science, and from philosophy from ancient Greece onwards.
This highly original work is accessible to anyone interested in science, philosophy, cosmology or theology, or to those who are just intrigued by the wonder of our being.
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- Éditeur : Wiley–Blackwell (11 mai 2007)
- Langue : Anglais
- Relié : 112 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1405162031
- ISBN-13 : 978-1405162036
- Poids de l'article : 281 g
- Dimensions : 14.78 x 1.27 x 22.35 cm
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Leslie's model has several contentious elements. First, he argues that some form of Platonism is true: he says that even if the cosmos did not exist, it would exist as an abstract possibility, and he is likewise a realist about things like mathematical truths, and, importantly, ethical truths. The next key concept, which he finds first in Plato, is the notion that "the Good" calls forth the existence of the concrete world. Finally, he adopts from Spinoza the suggestion that what exists can also be described as aspects of a divine mind.
The most difficult idea is that of the Good as a creative principle: the world exists because it is ethically required that it should. He argues for this indirectly: he wants to convince the reader it's a coherent idea, and that the nature of the world is consistent with it (its intelligibility, orderliness and life-suitability). And while the world has a lot in it which isn't good at all, the pantheist just has to argue that our world is valuable enough to be one of potentially many worlds to manifest the creative principle. Put alternatively, our world is interesting enough to be something worthy of contemplation by a divine mind.
With regard to this idea of being part of divine mind, Leslie thinks there is evidence for this in the kind of unity manifested in our own conscious minds, and likewise in the holistic aspect of nature generally, given quantum theory.
Leslie discusses three models of immortality. First is the model of the universe as a four-dimensional block. If the past and future are as real as the present, then any person who ever lives has a type of immortality. But more interestingly, if we accept the idea of being part of a divine mind, then perhaps this mind could think thoughts about us beyond the lifespan we're in now: this would be the afterlife. Third, and more generally, because the divine mind is itself eternal, and our life-pattern is one aspect of its being, we might thus survive bodily death, in a fashion, by virtue of our participation in the future of the divine mind.
In this book he approaches the notion of immortality from several scientific/metaphysical viewpoints - Einstien's block spacetime view, something like panentheism ("we are all thoughts in the mind of God(s)), and some others. He gives you lots to think about, though naturally you won't agree with everything - maybe you won't agree with much, but that's ok too.
The immortality stuff is really an aspect of a more general topic, of how to approach reality itself. Many might find the ethical necessity stuff far out, but then what isn't when considering ultimate realiity?