Philosophy 2073F/G Lecture Notes - The Guardians Of Time, Thought Experiment
13 Nov 2012
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The story so far: plato argued that death is not bad, and that philosophy prepares us for death. If we are going to survive death/be immortal/etc. it had better be us t hat survives. If it isn"t me floating around then plato"s arguments do not apply0. A) first suggestion from miller: the mind/soul survives death: what we are, fundamentally, is a soul. It is possible that the soul survives death and exists in some heavenly realm after death: since the soul is you, you survive death. B) rejection of this possibility: we don"t see souls; we see bodies, we have no way to know that the body we see contains the same soul that it did the last time we saw it. In that case, we wouldn"t know who the people we encounter actually were, since their souls may have been swapped: but this is absurd.
