The Soul Theory of Personal Identity

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Same soul, same person

 

A.     Soul: an enduring non-physical self temporarily linked to the physical body but which survives the death of the body

B.     Surviving death is possible since death is a body event

Some problems:

 

C.     Evidence?

a.      Believing X does not make X true!

b.      We seem to fall back to body descriptions

c.      Requires skepticism regarding identity of individuals

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D.     Identity does not seem wholly independent of the body

a.      Gender

b.      Phenomenal experience

 

E.     Souls playing musical chairs?

 

F.     Doesn’t fit so well with some theological fundamentals

a.      If I am not my body but my soul, then I do not actually die. Without death there is no need of resurrection

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