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Title: Personal Immortality: Arguments


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Personal Immortality Arguments
Socrates (470-399 BCE)
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
  • Socrates/Descartes unlike the body, the soul is
    simple, immaterial, does not come apart
  • Objection death is not dissolution of material
    parts, only the end of bodily (brain) activity
  • Peter van Inwagen God re-creates our
    same body after we die
  • Objection no re-creation would be identical

(1942- )
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Personal ImmortalityArguments (continued)
Kant
  • If there is a loving God, he would give us more
    than the brief span of our time on earth
  • Objection this assumes that there is such a God
  • Kant morality requires that the injustices of
    this life be balanced in an afterlife
  • Objection morality does not require happiness to
    match virtue so eternity is unnecessary

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Personal ImmortalityArguments (continued)
  • The fact that the belief in an afterlife is found
    almost universally argues in its favor
  • Objection this shows only widespread desire
  • Reports of near death experiences are too
    common, similar, and accurate to ignore
  • Objection such reports are explainable in purely
    psychological terms

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Personal ImmortalityArguments (continued)
  • Reports of reincarnation are also widespread
  • Objections why dont babies remember their past
    lives? Furthermore, not enough people have lived
    in the past to account for everyone today
  • Reports of communication with the dead and
    miracles are likewise widespread
  • Objection (Hume) these are due to
    wishful thinking and deception

David Hume
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