1. Life After Death (Lesson 1)
Mr. DeZilva Philosophy of Religion
Year 13 January 21st, 2014.

2. The Basics of what You’ll Need

3. What we will eventually know…
Dualism vs. Monism
Replica vs. Reincarnation
Resurrection vs. Reincarnation
Telepathy vs. Psychokinesis
Near Death Experience vs. Cryptoamnesia
Key Questions
What are some pieces of evidence for Life After Death?
What are the Philosophical Problems with Life After Death?
What are the important similarities and differences between the above concepts?
Can these experiences be authenticated?
What is the mind/body problem and why is it important?
What is the distinction between the soul and the body?
How is the Problem of Evil related to Life After Death?

4. Important People to Consider
Plato
Aristotle
Richard Dawkins
John Hick
Anthony Flew
AJ Ayer
Immanuel Kant
John Locke
Richard Swinburne
Keith Ward
Other Important Sources:
The Bible & Jesus
Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic & Sikh Scripture
Henry Price (H.H Price)
Dr. Rhine
Raymond Moody

5. What is The Soul?
Before understanding anything about Life After Death, the term implies that there is a relationship between the physical body and the person (or the essential self).
John Locke’s The Prince and a Cobbler story
Which person was which?
What makes us what we are?
Most theist believe that people have souls, even when their minds have been completely destroyed
Hindus  The soul is “more real” than the body, the body is a vehicle for the soul
Buddhist  No such thing as a soul; simply illusion
Christians & Jews  The soul and the body are different aspects of a single entity.

6. Plato on The Soul 427 BC to 347 BC
Made a distinction between the soul and the body (similar to the Form and Physical)
The Soul
Has the ability to know the truth
Can understand the Forms as they really are through reason.
Capable of certain knowledge.
Unchanging, immortal.
Exists after death, as well as pre-existing before birth
The Body
Can only learn through physical sense experiences
Gain knowledge, yet, this is inferior knowledge to that gained by reason.
In a constant process of change.
Cannot be the object of certain knowledge

7. Plato on The Soul continued
People’s inner, mental life was the most important thing about them.
The soul was the “real” part of the person, temporarily attached to a physical body, but immortal.
The Tripartite Theory of the Soul
Reason
Emotion
Appetite
The soul was a guiding force that helped the body and the mind to work together, and the only way it could do this was with a governance of the tripartite