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Laura Westra

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The Religious Dimension of Individual Immortality in the Thinking of William James

Faith and Philosophy 1986 Laura Westra, The Society Of Christian Philosophers 2 citations

William James states "Immortality is one of the great spiritual needs of man," yet the arguments presented in his LECTURE ON IMMORTALITY, while interesting and ingenious, are somewhat less than conclusive in proving that human beings can survive bodily death.Therefore I attempt to clarity the notion of "individual survivor" through an analysis and discussion of various approaches to the...