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A Naturalistic AfterlifeGod’s Last Bastion?

A Naturalistic Afterlife: God’s Last Bastion? [As the force of religious faith slowly recedes in more and more parts of the world, it is tempting to think of the afterlife as God’s Last Bastion: the final stronghold where the existence of a benevolent deity provides the only satisfactory answer to the universal, unquenchable human need to speculate on what happens after death. This chapter lays the groundwork to challenge that idea, proposing the possibility of a naturalistic afterlife, one that exists entirely on physicalist terms and without some form or residue of consciousness somehow surviving the death of our body. Any such naturalistic afterlife must be not only literally true and rationally plausible, but emotionally pertinent to us.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Naturalistic AfterlifeGod’s Last Bastion?

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
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978-3-319-57977-1
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1 –15
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10.1007/978-3-319-57978-8_1
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[As the force of religious faith slowly recedes in more and more parts of the world, it is tempting to think of the afterlife as God’s Last Bastion: the final stronghold where the existence of a benevolent deity provides the only satisfactory answer to the universal, unquenchable human need to speculate on what happens after death. This chapter lays the groundwork to challenge that idea, proposing the possibility of a naturalistic afterlife, one that exists entirely on physicalist terms and without some form or residue of consciousness somehow surviving the death of our body. Any such naturalistic afterlife must be not only literally true and rationally plausible, but emotionally pertinent to us.]

Published: Aug 2, 2017

Keywords: Afterlife; Religion; Secularism; Heaven; Immortality

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