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Downtown Lecture Series - Immortality: The Elusive Self in Life and Death

Nov 12, 2015

Downtown Lecture Series - Immortality: The Elusive Self in Life and Death

Professor Shaun Nichols and his research team spent months exploring attitudes towards death among Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists in India. His exploration was prompted by the philosophical argument that we should not fear the idea of death because there is no enduring self that remains exactly the same even during biological life.

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