Paradise Understood
New Philosophical Essays about Heaven
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 March 2017
- ISBN 9780198794301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 240x160x28 mm
- Weight 688 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A collection of seventeen philosophical essays that systematically investigate heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions.
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Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven systematically investigates heaven, or paradise, as conceived within theistic religious traditions such as Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It considers a variety of topics concerning what life in paradise would, could, or will be like for human persons. The collection offers novel approaches to questions about heaven of perennial philosophical interest, and breaks new ground by expanding the range of questions about heaven that philosophers have considered.
The contributors wrestle with questions about human life in paradise that span the spectrum of the major subfields of philosophical enquiry. By employing both historical and contemporary philosophical resources, the volume makes a pioneering contribution toward answering pressing questions about human life in paradise. It will serve as a platform for future research, reinvigorating philosophical investigation into these neglected topics within philosophy of religion.
There is much erudition, insight and precise and careful reasoning on display throughout.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: The Basic Nature of Paradise
Conceiving Heaven as a Dynamic Rather than Static Existence
Anselmian Mediations on Heaven
Part II: The Epistemology of Paradise
Will there be Skeptics in Heaven?
The Cognitive Dimension of Heavenly Bliss
Part III: Virtue in Paradise
The Virtues in Heaven
Paradise and Growing in Virtue
Part IV: Paradise and Responding to Evil
Heavenly Sadness: On the Value of Negative Emotions in Paradise
Virtues of Repair in Paradise
Part V: The Social and Political Philosophy of Paradise
In Defense of Animal Universalism
Personhood, Embodiment, and Survival: Speculations on Life after (Biological) Death
Part VI: Resurrection in Paradise
Composition and the Will of God: Reconsidering Resurrection by Reassembly
Some Advantages for a Thomistic Solution to the Problem of Personal Identity Beyond Death
The Resurrection and Hypertime
Part VII: Freedom in Paradise
Resting on Your Laurels: Deserting Desert in Paradise?
The Possibility and Scope of Significant Heavenly Freedom
VIII: The Desirability of Paradise
Hume, Happiness, Heaven, and Home
Why the Life of Heaven is Supremely Worth Living
