Life after death

Question 1

Who argued for the existence of a disembodied mind?

Answer 1

H.H. Price, the soul exists in a dream world of memories and images from their life

Question 2

What did Swinburne think about the afterlife?

Answer 2

• Soul depends on body

- God could create another body for the soul after the death of the earthly one.

Question 3

What does Hick think about the afterlife?

Answer 3

• Death is an instantaneous disappearance and reappearance of a person, constituted by a different body than the one they had before death.
• The new body is not destructive of identity.

Question 4

What argument could you give to support H.H Price’s argument?

Answer 4

Visual binding problem suggests that the brain is not responsible for the way we perceive things.
Something else is responsible for perception, it explains why he thinks that we must perceive.