Self, God and Immortality by Eugene Fontinell
Can 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 experienceto 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.-
X-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought
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Pets, People, and Pragmatism
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The Politics of Survival
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Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups
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Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems
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Loyalty to Loyalty
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Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God
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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives
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William James on the Courage to Believe
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Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms
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Philosophy in Experience
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Reason, Experience, and God
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Charles S. Peirce
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Yes, but not Quite
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John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
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The Drama of Possibility
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Doing Philosophy Personally
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Charles Peirce's Theory of Scientific Method
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Pragmatic Fashions
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Philosophy Americana
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The Things in Heaven and Earth
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Experience and God
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
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Thinking Through the Imagination
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Pragmatism, Nation, and Race
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The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Peirce and Contemporary Thought
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Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy
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The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
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Meddling
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The Gleam of Light
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Habits of Whiteness
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Pragmatism As Post-Postmodernism
"A provocative interpretation of James and an open-ended claim for a religious view that does not fly in the face of what we know about ourselves and our worldRecommended." -Choice "...is a substantial contribution to scholarship on James but also to contemporary efforts to do constructive religious thinking..." -The Journal of Religion
Eugene Fontinell is Professor of Philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823220717 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823220710 |
| Title | Self, God and Immortality |
| Author | Eugene Fontinell |
| Series | American Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2000-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 297 |
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