Abstract
This article explores the concept of non-personal immortality. Non-personal theories of immortality claim that even though there is no personal or individual survival of death, it is still possible to continue to exist in a non-personal state. The most important challenge for non-personal conceptions of immortality is solving the apparent contradiction between on the one hand accepting that individual existence ends with death and on the other hand maintaining that death nevertheless is not equal to total annihilation. I present two theories of non-personal immortality found in Schopenhauer and William James and derive a set of systematic core theses from them. Finally, I discuss whether the notion of non-personal immortality is consistent, and whether a non-personal afterlife could be desirable.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion |
Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-106139-9 |
ISSN: | 0034-4125 |
Annotation: | Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2023 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 106139 |
Date Deposited: | 01. Sep 2023, 13:12 |
Last Modified: | 07. Jun 2024, 05:42 |