1. There are two kinds of existences: (a) the visible world that we perceive with our senses, which is human, mortal, composite, unintelligible, and always changing, and (b) the invisible world of Forms that we can access solely with our minds, which is divine, deathless, intelligible, non-composite, and always the same (78c-79a, 80b).

2. The soul is more like world (b), whereas the body is more like world (a) (79b-e).

3. Therefore, supposing it has been freed of bodily influence through philosophical training, the soul is most likely to make its way to world (b) when the body dies (80d-81a). (If, however, the soul is polluted by bodily influence, it likely will stay bound to world (a) upon death (81b-82b).)

iii. The Affinity Argument (78b-84b)

http://www.iep.utm.edu/phaedo/#SSH3biii

plato, more, socrates, hume, descartes, elias

apology 40c

phaedo 70a, 77b,

socrates Phaedo covers his thought on the immortality of the soul

http://spiritualsatanist.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-there-satanic-afterlife.html

satanic view of the afterlife

Talks about afterlife in christianity

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q69_A2.html

Epicurus

this should be helpful
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/

more information

good article
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pomponazzi/#Immortality

Philosophers

anti religion    anything about religion by Bertrand Russell

pro religion     Summa Theologica by Aquinas


Epicurus:
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

William James
James said that the brain might be the vehicle for the transmission of a consciousness that originates elsewhere, and that if this is true, then the deathof my body and its brain is not the death of that stream of consciousness, which may well continue in that elsewhere.

The Meaning of Life

this talks about god centered meaning and soul centered meaning

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/

Language Skills

Ich versuche zu lernen, sprechen deutsch

A Response to "On Bodily Death, a Person Continues to Exist in a Non-physical Form."

I somewhat agree with this statement. I feel that a person no longer exists after death, but they are remembered through others’ memories. When a person dies they are cremated or buried and hidden from the living. They no longer exist because they do not interact with the people around them. There is no spirit that lingers around after they die that interacts with living people. They do not travel to Heaven or Hell; they do not travel to the afterlife. When a person dies they are gone. However, just because they are gone does not mean that they are forgotten, the memories they left their peers to hold on to, in a sense help them continue to exist. I do not believe that a person physically exists after death, but they can continue to exist in the memories of other people.

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