PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Hanging Judge
4 Dec 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
David hume- of the immortality of the soul . Overall position similar to locke"s except hume does not believe in bodily resurrection. Hume does not believe in bodily resurrection. It is difficult to prove personal immortality but by religion alone we do believe in it. It is unclear how much hume believes in the gospel. It is impossible for thought (consciousness) to belong to matter so the soul must be immaterial. Immaterial things cannot be destroyed soul/you cannot be destroyed even when the physical body dies. Your soul lives on after the death of your body. Hume: we cannot be sure of that matter can"t sustain consciousness. Agrees with locke that the nature of substance utterly obscure and so we can"t be sure what the properties in here in either. Agrees with locke that we know from experience, matter may be the cause or basis of consciousness. Let"s suppose that there are immaterial substances and consciousness require immaterial.
