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J.M.E. McTaggart seeks to critically expound and appraise the British philosopher's thought with respect to three principal themes of his philosophy: substance, self, and immortality. Ramesh Kumar Sharma guides the reader through the labyrinths of McTaggart's intricate arguments and defends many of McTaggart's 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) McTaggart's overall vision of the universe or Absolute, and his rejection of the more or less predominant view that the Absolute is God; (4) McTaggart's 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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Reality and Existence
Chapter 3 Substance and Characteristics
Chapter 4 The Nature of Substance: Some Key Doctrines
Chapter 5 Matter and Sensa: Their Perspective Claims To Reality (Substancehood)
Chapter 6 The Case of Spirit: McTaggart's Idealism
Chapter 7 Reality of the Self: Empirical Considerations
Chapter 8 Selves and the Absolute
Chapter 9 The Absolute, (Self), and God
Chapter 10 The Self and Immortality
Chapter 11 Pre-Existence, (Post-Existence), and Plurality of Lives
Chapter 12 Perception
Chapter 13 Afterword
