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| 4 arguments against life after death |
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| Phychological origin, Trumpet analogy, Silence argument, Brain damage |
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| We only believe in life after death because we want to, wishes or desires arent reliable guides to the truth. Not everyone really desires life after death. |
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| Billions of people have died, why is there no communication if there is an afterlife. Argument against: maybe dead have other things to do, or cant communicate. |
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| A trumpets note does not exist if the trumpet is destroyed, so mind needs the body to exist. Argument against:body is forever changing, body more closly resembles a symphony. |
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| Destroying some part of someones brain can turn them into a vegtable, so if the brain is destroyed all mental activity stops. That means none of us survive death. Argument against: our brain is a window to view out of our body, once we leave our body we no longer need our brain to access reality. |
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| Three arguments for life after death |
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| Plato's indestructibility, Nature analogy, Desire. |
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| Plato's indestructibility |
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| Things are only destroyed when they are dismantled, the sould has no pieces so it cant be dismantled. Argument: there is no proof that a soul exists, who says it doesnt have pieces. |
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| Every ending is a new begining, we have to end our physical form to start a new existance. Argument: humans survive transformations, how can we prove it goes one step after death. |
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| born with, or natural tendency to develop. Desire to eat. |
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| money is good, how to drive a car. |
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| Humans have an inate desire to survive bodily death, therefore it must exist. Argument: Not every innate desire is fufilled, there are millions of hungry people. |
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| In any situation, the action that produces the most good is the correct one. |
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| right and good consist in obedience to our moral duties. We do good because of our morals |
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| language is merely expressive in function, not fact stating. People differ to much over moral and ethical judments for there to be any facts. |
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| Problems with non cog approach |
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| It seems wrong, and there is no rooms for moral facts. |
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| when we say something is good, we are not stating a fact, only our subjective feelings. There are no objective moral facts, you state emotions or feeling, not facts. |
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| Position with respect to ethics and morals, built on convictions. Language can and usually does state objective facts. Argument: we cant prove moral fact. |
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| Principle of belief conservation |
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| most people hold moral beliefs, that implies that our moral judgments are representations of objective facts. |
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| Teleological concept of good |
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| Something is good, when it hits the bullseye. |
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| Aristotles argument for if a man is good |
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| First tell me what a good man is, then i can tell you who is good and bad. |
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