PHL105Y5 Lecture 1: Personal Identity: Soul Theory
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Concept is crucial when one anticipates good things to come as well as those to dread, not the same as for others. Guilt & shame when you act on your own rather. Personal identity [similarity of identity throughout one"s life] Immortality [after death, can you live on?: two false starts, merger with being. Become one with other beings of the earth decay into soil (trees, animals, foliage: rejected as one cannot anticipate or dread interactions, although parts of an individual continue, one"s consciousness does not, resurrection. To survive after death is for soul to live on soul theory: soul is conscious part of you your soul sees and smells, but cannot be seen or smelt , non-material. According to the theory at death soul separates at body"s death. Challenge for soul theory; how could one tell who is who: souls are non-detectable; souls can"t be seen or smelt.
