PHILOS 1A03 Lecture : Immortality.docx
4 Dec 2013
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Parents live on through our children because our dna is being passed on. Some people say that we live through matter and energy that composed us in life. We are considered dead but people are still talking about us. Personal immortality: a person surviving the death of his or her body. Requires that the conscious self continues to exist: depends on what a person is in your opinion. Ancient greek tradition: both the gods (zeus, athena, hira etc) and the humans came into existence: only difference is that humans are mortal, and gods are immortal. There is a quasi-afterlife for humans: hades (somewhat like hell) A phantom/ mere shadow of a us which once lives lives in hades. Libations- sacrifice of blood and wine for dead friends/heros/ancestors which will gain temporary consciousness in hades. When a person dies, the body (mortal) breaks down, and you live- the spiritual reasoning and rational thing which thinks, remembers, imagine lives on.
