Abdulkabir Adejumo
Professor Escalante
PHILO 1301
11/2/2017
Response Paper 1
“Do We Survive Death?”
In this interesting chapter, James Rachels starts by uncovering the philosophy of Socrates about the immortal soul. At that point, he utilizes the scientific argument to conflict with Socrates' conclusion about the presence of the soul as a piece of the human body. He at last finishes by talking about different confirmations of the Afterlife and by articulating the contention of David Hume against miracles. As Rachels reported Hume who says “when anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived” (Rachels, 50)
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Cebes likewise showed himself against Socrate by proclaiming that the soul can't exist in light of the fact that for the soul to be …show more content…
The first was, "The soul is straightforward. It has no parts that can be disconnected from each other. Besides, the soul isn't a physical thing, it can't be scorched, pulverized, or mutilated. Subsequently, it can't be wrecked" (Rachels, 39). I truly like this one since the one interested me the most. Actually, in the interim I absolutely concur with it, I am additionally puzzled about it. The reality of the matter is that the soul, in the event that it is genuine, is most likely non-physical. What I don't acknowledge is having the capacity to think about something you never observed or touched. How might you consider something you have no clue about what it is, something you can't speak to? How might you be so sure of its reality? Notwithstanding the past quote, James Rachels likewise proclaims, "He thought it was a reality, autonomous of religion, that every person is made out of a physical body a non-physical body". Similarly, as the past one, this quote left me loaded with questions since I was not ready to make sense of how it could to be conceivable to consider a body you can't see. Why crediting two bodies to a man while we really observe she simply has one body? The last one that I might want to say was, "The most widely recognized procedure utilized by mystics is 'chilly perusing', a strategy by which the clairvoyant seems to create data when in actuality the data is being given by the
Professor Escalante
PHILO 1301
11/2/2017
Response Paper 1
“Do We Survive Death?”
In this interesting chapter, James Rachels starts by uncovering the philosophy of Socrates about the immortal soul. At that point, he utilizes the scientific argument to conflict with Socrates' conclusion about the presence of the soul as a piece of the human body. He at last finishes by talking about different confirmations of the Afterlife and by articulating the contention of David Hume against miracles. As Rachels reported Hume who says “when anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived” (Rachels, 50)
James Rachels, …show more content…
Cebes likewise showed himself against Socrate by proclaiming that the soul can't exist in light of the fact that for the soul to be …show more content…
The first was, "The soul is straightforward. It has no parts that can be disconnected from each other. Besides, the soul isn't a physical thing, it can't be scorched, pulverized, or mutilated. Subsequently, it can't be wrecked" (Rachels, 39). I truly like this one since the one interested me the most. Actually, in the interim I absolutely concur with it, I am additionally puzzled about it. The reality of the matter is that the soul, in the event that it is genuine, is most likely non-physical. What I don't acknowledge is having the capacity to think about something you never observed or touched. How might you consider something you have no clue about what it is, something you can't speak to? How might you be so sure of its reality? Notwithstanding the past quote, James Rachels likewise proclaims, "He thought it was a reality, autonomous of religion, that every person is made out of a physical body a non-physical body". Similarly, as the past one, this quote left me loaded with questions since I was not ready to make sense of how it could to be conceivable to consider a body you can't see. Why crediting two bodies to a man while we really observe she simply has one body? The last one that I might want to say was, "The most widely recognized procedure utilized by mystics is 'chilly perusing', a strategy by which the clairvoyant seems to create data when in actuality the data is being given by the