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J.M.E. McTaggart
eBook - Substance, Self, and Immortality
ISBN/EAN: 9780739186763
Umbreit-Nr.: 860446
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 542 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 03.12.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>J.M.E. McTaggart</span><span>seeks to critically expound and appraise the British philosophers thought with respect to three principal themes of his philosophy: substance, self, and immortality. Ramesh Kumar Sharma guides the reader through the labyrinths of McTaggarts intricate arguments and defends many of McTaggarts highly unorthodox doctrines and conclusions. While doing this, Sharma draws on the works of, among others, Berkeley, Hegel, and Leibniz, and at the same time attacks numerous modern-day physicalist theories that propound mind-brain identity as against the presumed reality of the self and consciousness. This work is thus recommended both for philosophers and researchers interested in: (1) such perennial metaphysical subjects as reality, existence, possibility, the basic ontological categories of substance, qualities, and relations (universals); (2) the question of the reality of the self; (3) McTaggarts overall vision of the universe or Absolute, and his rejection of the more or less predominant view that the Absolute is God; (4) McTaggarts unique doctrine, after Plato, of the immortality of the self combined with (the self s) pre-existence, post-existence, and plurality of lives; and (5) his extraordinary, but important, views on perception.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>The book is intended for such undergraduate, post-graduate students and research scholars who are interested in the areas of metaphysics, ontology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, idealism, or in the philosophical problems of substance, universals, self, immortality, God/Absolute, monism-pluralism debate, perception, Indian doctrine of karma (action). Its special readership of course includes students of McTaggart¿s philosophy, McTaggart scholars, scholars of Neo-Hegelian or British Idealism, and students and scholars of early analytic philosophy. </span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Ramesh Kumar Sharma</span><span> is Emeritus Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.</span></span>