'Intimations of immortality': a response to Bernard Williams
In this article, I address Bernard Williams's famous objection to immortality. Following others, I conceive of Williams's argument as presenting a dilemma for those who hope in immortality. The first lemma involves utter boredom, while the second lemma involves loss of one's distincti...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Religious studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-260 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Williams, Bernard 1929-2003
/ Immortality
/ Heaven
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality NBC Doctrine of God |
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Summary: | In this article, I address Bernard Williams's famous objection to immortality. Following others, I conceive of Williams's argument as presenting a dilemma for those who hope in immortality. The first lemma involves utter boredom, while the second lemma involves loss of one's distinctive character. I argue that each lemma fails to admit realistic alternative possibilities. The first fails to admit the possibility that our disposition to boredom is a radically contingent disposition. The second fails to admit the possibility that we retain some of our most important desires and projects in immortality - even while cycling through an array of desires and projects. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000537 |