Revision word list – Life After Death

Body

Soul

Reincarnation

Resurrection

Immortality

Rebirth

Memories

Balance out inequalities

Perfect souls

Hell

Atman

Moksha

Brahman

Oblivion

Heaven

Greek idea

Just God

Spiritual body

Physical body

Aquinas happiness only achievable in next life

Marxist view if another life then take this one less seriously

Identity

Personality

Dualism

Descartes I think…. Essential selves more than just matter

Hume bundle of different perceptions

Plato soul becomes trapped in body

Identity theory – physical-biological processes

Creativity? Morality? Questions of existence?

Eternal

Indestructible

Dawkins – replicators

God’s covenant

God’s intention is perfection – not perfect if death is end

NDEs hallucinations? Chemical responses?

No proof

Jung’s theory of archetypes – common experiences – pre-programmed into collective unconscious

Hick ‘absence of knowledge is not the same as knowledge of absence.’