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Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self
Person Soul and Identity Philosophy and the Real Self Author:Robert Bolton The reality of the self is of more than purely personal interest. It is as important for religion as the existence of God. Without it, any religious message can only go from nothing to nothing, and skepticism about self and soul breeds religious unbelief. Person, Soul, and Identity explores the deepest questions of personal identity in order to ... more »refute the modern nihilism which denies the reality of the self. What is the true self? What is the basis of our personal identity? Robert Bolton shows how the self, with its uniqueness and personal immortality, can be validated in terms of a philosophy which could better be called a universal wisdom tradition. This philosophy illumines issues of life, death, and personality in a way which has never ceased to be relevant, and criticizes a number of theories which tend to negate the self, besides being a timely attack on a lot of nonsense on stilts which pretends to be scientific: after all, if we are told that the self is unreal, who or what exactly is trying tell us that this is the truth?« less