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What are some arguments used by religious philosophers to prove the existence of an afterlife world? Even if we take the existence of souls for granted, we still don't know their fate, and it's even ...
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The existing definition of death (expert consensus based) is that it is the 1) cessation of bodily functions, 2) Brain EEG flatline Is it possible though that a person's essence, their individuality ...
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Ask the following to AI: I think, feeling is so valuable, because it is so varied that its entirety constitutes as 'experience'. Whereas, it is just a different combinations of signals reaching the ...
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If I ask the question "Why was I born in this body and not in another body?" or similar variations such as "Why didn’t I have different parents?" or "Why was I born on this ...
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It seems that that is what he is saying here: "Now it was shown above (AA. 2, 3) that the souls of brutes are not self-subsistent, whereas the human soul is; so that the souls of brutes are ...
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From Wikipedia: Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose ...
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In De Anima, Aristotle states that the soul of an animal is realized in its physical form. Does this mean that he believes souls are like biological blueprints, and that when applied to any sort of ...
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I am reading the book of Bart Ehrman's Heaven and Hell. In there, I might have hit some controversies that may not be controversies at all, but my mind can't decide. In Apology, socrate says: Death ...
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I presume that, after death, there would not be any afterlife or any remains of the soul. while I am alive, I have a certain perception or concept of the universe. I have a sense of space, time, ...
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Colloquially, we often have a notion that souls are like some sort of ghosts or "cloud inside a bottle" that leave body after death. I feel the notion of soul in a bit different way. I feel ...
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I have been reading Aristotle's Politics book and I struggle to understand what is his idea behind soul. From what I found on the internet the "soul" seems to be not spiritual but rather ...
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In Plato's theory of transmigration of souls, do some souls ever make it to a place of eternal bliss or get remanded to a place of eternal punishment?
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I was thinking about 'soul' and whether what is problematic about it for many is less its permanence than its duality (reminded of my friend on the 'kingdom of heaven' "hey look, Jesus is over ...
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By the detachment of the soul from space-time, I understand the ability of the soul, after the death of the organism, to be reborn into anyone, anywhere and anytime. For example, the soul lived in a ...
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I used to believe that a human being has a supernatural, spiritual soul and that it is obvious for the reasons stated below. I was very surprised to find out that not only secular philosophy, but even ...
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