LEADER 03348nam 22004455 450 001 9910324045603321 005 20230307013728.0 010 $a0-8232-8515-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823285150 035 $a(CKB)4100000008277098 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00125451 035 $a(DE-B1597)555243 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823285150 035 $a(OCoLC)1102727319 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008277098 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSelf, God and Immortality $ea Jamesian Investigation /$fEugene Fontinell 205 $a"First Open Access edition". 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xxv, 297 pages) 225 0 $aAmerican Philosophy 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE TO THE FORDHAM EDITION --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1. World or Reality as "Fields" --$tCHAPTER 2. Toward a Field Model of the Self --$tCHAPTER 3. James: Toward a Field-Self --$tCHAPTER 4. James: Personal Identity --$tCHAPTER 5. James: Full Self and Wider Fields --$tCHAPTER 6. James: Self and God --$tCHAPTER 7. Immortality: Hope or Hindrance? --$tCHAPTER 8. Immortality: A Pragmatic-Processi ve Model --$tConcluding Reflections --$tNOTES --$tIndex 330 $aCan we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual persons are immortal. Indeed, is there even good cause to hope that we are? In examining the present relationship of reason to faith, can we find justifying reasons for faith? These are the central questions in Self, God, and Immortality, a compelling exercise in philosophical theology. Drawing upon the works of William James and the principles of American Pragmatism, Eugene Fontinell extrapolates carefully from "data given in experience" to a model of the cosmic process open to the idea that individual identity may survive bodily dissolution. Presupposing that the possibility of personal immortality has been established in the first part, the second part of the essay is concerned with desirability. Here, Fontinell shows that, far from diverting attention and energies from the crucial tasks confronting us here and now, such belief can be energizing and life enhancing. The wider importance of Self, God, and Immortality lies in its pressing both immortality-believers and terminality-believers to explore both the metaphysical presuppositions and the lived consequences of their beliefs. It is the author's expressed hope that such explorations, rather than impeding, will stimulate co-operative efforts to create a richer and more humane community. 410 0$aAmerican philosophy series. 606 $aImmortality$xHistory of doctrines$y20th century 615 0$aImmortality$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a218 700 $aFontinell$b Eugene$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01097536 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910324045603321 996 $aSelf, God, and immortality$92617980 997 $aUNINA