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Author | : Steven Brust |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765334224 |
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A sharp, original urban fantasy about a near-immortal secret society's battle to save itself—on the streets of Las Vegas.
Author | : Alex Long |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107086590 |
Download Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Author | : John Leslie |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1405181389 |
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Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like anafterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why theworld exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well beimmortal in all of three separate ways. Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence,among them, "why does the cosmos exist?", "is there a divine mindor God?", and "in what sense might we have afterlives?" Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for areligious affiliation or rejection of modern science Explores the ideas of "Einsteinian immortality", the divineafterlife, and the theory of an infinite and divine mind Draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, fromancient Greece to the present day, and incorporates up-to-datescientific findings Written in a thought-provoking and engaging manner, accessibleto anyone intrigued by the wonder of our being
Author | : Stephen Cave |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307884937 |
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If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.
Author | : Lewis Richard Farnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Ker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Eschatology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Milan Kundera |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1999-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060932384 |
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose; to explore thoroughly the great, themes of existence.
Author | : William KER (Vicar of Tipton.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Greg Egan |
Publisher | : Greg Egan |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2002-02-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1922240060 |
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For twenty thousand years, every observable phenomenon in the universe has been successfully explained by the Sarumpaet Rules: the laws governing the dynamics of the quantum graphs that underlie all the constituents of matter and the geometric structure of spacetime. Now Cass has stumbled on a set of quantum graphs that might comprise the fundamental particles of an entirely different kind of physics, and she has travelled three hundred and seventy light years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, in the hope of bringing this tantalising alternative to life. The “novo-vacuum” is predicted to begin decaying the instant it’s created, but even a short-lived, microscopic speck could shed light on the origins of the universe, and test the Sarumpaet Rules more rigorously than ever before. Cass’s experiment turns out to be more successful than anticipated: the novo-vacuum is more stable than the ordinary vacuum around it, and a region in which the new physics holds sway proceeds to expand out from Mimosa at half the speed of light. Six hundred years later, more than two thousand inhabited systems have been lost to the novo-vacuum. On the Rindler, a ship that has matched velocities with the encroaching border, people have come from throughout inhabited space to study the phenomenon. Most are Preservationists, hunting for a way to turn back the tide, but a few belong to another faction: Yielders, who believe that the challenge of adapting to survive on the far side of the border would reinvigorate a civilisation that has grown stale and insular. Tchicaya has come to the Rindler to join the Yielders, but when Mariama — a childhood friend whose example inspired him to abandon his own home world and traditions for a life of travel — arrives soon after, he is shocked to discover that she plans to help the Preservationists find a way to destroy the novo-vacuum. As a theoretical breakthrough leads to a sequence of experiments that begins to reveal the true richness of the world behind the border, tensions between the opposing factions grow. When a splinter group responds to these revelations with violent, unilateral action, Tchicaya and Mariama are forced into an uneasy alliance, and travel together through the border, balancing old and new loyalties against the fate of two incomparably different universes.
Author | : Clifford Herschel Moore |
Publisher | : Cambridge Harvard University Press 1918. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Immortality |
ISBN | : |
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