Life After Death
- Created by: TheAwesomeOne
- Created on: 08-04-15 00:30
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- Life After Death
- Continuity vs. Identity
- John Hick's Replica Theory
- Stage 1
- Fred disappears from London and appear in NYC.
- Physical identity
- memories and relationships hep to show that Fred is the real Fred
- continuity
- continuity has been broken.
- there is no way for someone to immediately get from London to NYC is a split second
- if Fred got on a plane, continuity would still be intact but since there was no pane involved, continuity has been broken
- there is no way for someone to immediately get from London to NYC is a split second
- continuity has been broken.
- Physical identity
- Fred disappears from London and appear in NYC.
- Stage 2
- Fred dies in London and appears alive in NYC
- convinces his wife that it is really him - verifiable
- Fred knows things that only Fred knows
- convinces his wife that it is really him - verifiable
- Fred dies in London and appears alive in NYC
- Stage 3
- Fred in London and appears in heaven
- cannot verify that dead Fred is now in haven
- Hick would claim that there are no philosophical differences between all of the stages
- Fred in London and appears in heaven
- Transportation
- Stage 1
- John Hick's Replica Theory
- Monism and Dualism
- Monism
- mind and body are linked together to form one identity
- Dualism
- mind and body are distinct and separate entities, though one can infuence the other
- Cartesian Dualism
- Monism
- Resurrection of the body
- Monism
- body dies and the soul remains in the body
- both wait for the last day
- on the last day, everyone is resurrected together
- your soul enters your new body - your "spiritual" body
- bodily continuity is broken when waiting for the last day
- retains memories, personality and relationships
- bodily continuity is broken when waiting for the last day
- your soul enters your new body - your "spiritual" body
- on the last day, everyone is resurrected together
- both wait for the last day
- body dies and the soul remains in the body
- Dualism
- body dies and soul leaves your body
- your soul joins your "spiritual"" body
- your old body is left to decay
- body and soul can be separate
- retain memories, personality and relationships
- body and soul can be separate
- your old body is left to decay
- your soul joins your "spiritual"" body
- body dies and soul leaves your body
- Monism
- Immortality of the Soul
- dualist
- body and soul are alive
- body dies and decays
- soul goes to God, and joins all other pre-existing souls in heaven with God
- bodily continuity is not broken
- retains memories, personality and relationships
- bodily continuity is not broken
- soul goes to God, and joins all other pre-existing souls in heaven with God
- body dies and decays
- body and soul are alive
- dualist
- Reincarnation
- Types of the body
- your body die but your soul lives on
- soul is reborn into another body - "transmigration of souls"
- cycle continues repeatedly, with the soul facing ad/ good karma for how they have lived in the previous life
- the soul can be reincarnated in other realms - some more happy and others more painful than Earth
- the soul aims to seek perfection and enlightenment order to be united with Brahman
- the soul is a part of God and so, once perfection enlightenment is reached, the soul joins back into God's form
- "Nirvana" = ultimate reality is Brahman, and the union is sought by all souls
- "moksha" = enlightenment
- the soul is a part of God and so, once perfection enlightenment is reached, the soul joins back into God's form
- the soul aims to seek perfection and enlightenment order to be united with Brahman
- the developments that occur to a person in their different lifetimes are called "samskaras"
- the soul can be reincarnated in other realms - some more happy and others more painful than Earth
- cycle continues repeatedly, with the soul facing ad/ good karma for how they have lived in the previous life
- soul = "atman"
- soul is reborn into another body - "transmigration of souls"
- Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Aquinas
- Plato
- the body belongs to the psychical world and will one day, cease to exist
- "Doctrine of Recollection"
- the soul belongs to a higher realm of eternal forms where eternal truths (love and justice) endure forever
- our souls forget heavenly knowledge when they descend into the psychical realm, and education is needed to help it to remember
- the soul belongs to a higher realm of eternal forms where eternal truths (love and justice) endure forever
- Eternal Forms
- Ideas. Ideals that exist as a real entity
- they exist in the metaphysical world, but they also exist in the physical world
- better versions in the metaphysical world
- metaphysical perfect and real
- physical realm = a shadow of the metaphysical realm - not really real
- metaphysical perfect and real
- better versions in the metaphysical world
- they exist in the metaphysical world, but they also exist in the physical world
- happened before Christianity
- Ideas. Ideals that exist as a real entity
- Aristotle
- the soul gives the body life and they work together
- the soul cannot survive death
- Aquinas
- the soul survives death
- agrees with Aristotle
- the soul gives the body life and they work together
- when the body dies, the soul retains the identity that was attached to the body
- Descartes
- sceptical of the physical world - a source of constant deception
- rejected physical world due to a malicious demon
- it is necessary that the soul must be the only possible meaningful way of understanding the afterlife
- Plato
- Rebirth
- there is no soul or self
- there are just patterns of consciousnss travelling through time and space like a wave
- we perceive there being an I experiencing it, but it is just an illusion
- Nirvana is possible - it is the end of the cycle of rebirth
- when you reach perfection, the "wave" (process of perception) cntnues
- just a process of thinking and perceptions taking place
- believe in the concept of "anatta" = soullessness
- there are just patterns of consciousnss travelling through time and space like a wave
- there is no soul, no God and no heaven
- there is no soul or self
- Parapsychology
- Continuity vs. Identity
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