This books offers an annotated edition of Nifo's De intellectu (1503), including an extensive analytical summary of the contents, as well as a chronology of Nifo's life and works, and a full index of ...the chapters of this work.
This article examines the impact of Western discourses of religion and community on Tamil Shaivism in the 1860s and 1870s. I focus on Ramalinga Adigal, one of the most important and innovative Tamil ...Shaiva leaders of the time. In 1865, Ramalinga founded a new society that incorporated features of Western associational culture, including an emphasis on individual ethical transformation, social activism, charitable outreach and voluntary association. Yet, at the same time, he drew on Shaiva devotional and Tantric traditions. I conclude that the impact of Western conceptions of religion was gradual and uneven, especially on the margins of colonial cosmopolitanism.
Bootstrapping the Afterlife Altshuler, Roman
Journal of moral philosophy,
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Samuel Scheffler defends "The Afterlife Conjecture": the view that the continued existence of humanity after our deaths- "the afterlife"-lies in the background of our valuing; were we to lose ...confidence in it, many of the projects we engage in would lose their meaning. The Afterlife Conjecture, in his view, also brings out the limits of our egoism, showing that we care more about yet unborn strangers than about personal survival. But why does the afterlife itself matter to us? Examination of Scheffler's second argument helps answer this question, thereby undermining his argument. Our concern for the afterlife involves bootstrapping: we care more about the afterlife than about personal survival precisely because the latter has such salient limits that our lives are structured by adaptation to mortality, and it is only because the afterlife does provide a measure of personal survival that it can give meaning to our projects.
The author argues that immortality need not be as bad as Bernard Williams says it would be. He argues that if an immortal life were characterized by a sufficiently diverse package of experiences, ...appropriately distributed, there is no reason to think that one would become bored (just as there is no reason to think that one would become bored of such experiences in a finite life). He acknowledges that some pleasurable experiences would be “self-exhausting,” but he says that there are enough “repeatable pleasures” to avoid the tedium of which Bernard Williams speaks.
The aim of this paper is to present the relationship between literature, religion and existential knowledge in the memorial work of François-René de Chateaubriand. The first main problem is the ...transmission of universal values represented by Christianity. The second problem are narrator’s tragic experiences that become a source of precious knowledge communicated to the reader. These narrative stakes, reinforced by rhetorical persuasion, are crucial to ensure immortality of the author through the pertinence of his voice addressed to posterity.
In Zero K, Don DeLillo relies on the uncanny to investigate the limits of the human condition and to bridge the tension between the transcendental and the everyday. The novel's narrator, Jeff ...Lockhart, offers readers a tour of the underworld in his visits to the Convergence, a cryonics facility where mannequins and frozen bodies blur the boundaries between life and death. The Convergence's promise of crystalline language, transcendent truth, and immortality is revealed to be a form of skepticism that prevents us from seeing the extraordinariness of the ordinary. An uncanny engagement with the “radiance in dailiness” allows Jeff to escape the solipsism that defines so many of DeLillo's characters and to join the community of humans, linked by finitude and solitude.
Personal time, as opposed to external time, has a certain role to play in the correct account of death and immortality. But saying exactly what that role is, and what role remains for external time, ...is not straightforward. I formulate and defend accounts of death and immortality that specify these roles precisely.
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