John Locke and Personal Identity Immortality and Bodily Resurrection in 17th-Century Philosophy

by Forstrom, K. Joanna S.

• ISBN13: 9781847061454
• ISBN10: 1847061451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Provides new emphasis on Locke's theological commitments, as well as those of Descartes, Hobbes, Henry More and Robert Boyle.

Author Biography

K. Joanna S. Forstrom is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Spring Hill College, Alabama, USA. She has a PhD in Philosophy from Washington University in St Louis, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
John Locke and the Problem of Personal Identity: The Principium Individuationis, Personal Immortality, and Bodily Resurrection	p. 6
On Separation and Immortality: Descartes and the Nature of the Soul	p. 29
On Materialism and Immortality: Or Hobbes' Rejection of the Natural Argument for the Immortality of the Soul	p. 54
Henry More and John Locke on the Dangers of Materialism: Immateriality, Immortality, Immorality, and Identity	p. 76
Robert Boyle: On Seeds, Cannibalism, and the Resurrection of the Body	p. 101
Locke's Theory of Personal Identity in its Context: A Reassessment of Classic Objections	p. 116
Notes	p. 132
Bibliography	p. 147
Index	p. 153
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