Argument for Life After Death

Argument for Life After Death (LAD) apart from religious belief

I. Simplicity of Soul

Soul – human’s immaterial substance that can have properties, remain the same through change, survive and maintain it’s identity with itself. Even if the body is destroyed

a. Annihilation or separation of parts
b. Science does not give example of annihilation
c. Physical objects are complex. Soul is basic and simple
c. Therefore, the soul is immortal – no good reason to believe it can be annihilated.

The soul is capable of having desires thoughts, beliefs, and sensation of color, sound and so forth.

Further, the soul contains various capacities that differ from each other. The soul contains internal different indicating the soul is not a simple entity.


II. The unity of the soul though the soul is not simple, it seem to possess deeper unity than do ordinary objects.

It goes like this…

a. When we reflect upon ourselves certain things become evident to us

1. We have a body – not the same as our body.
2. Plurality of contents, thoughts, pain, feelings, desires, memories, sensory experiences, willingness.
3. I am not identical to any of those nor I am a combination of those.
4. My thoughts and feelings couldn’t exist without me
5. Reality of me is not a function of any, nor a combination of those contents
6. I am a center of consciousness an irreducible I
7. I could exist even without them. They could not exist w/o me

If I am the center of my own consciousness, & the I (ego) is irreducible and cannot be annihilated, therefore there is some presumption in favor of the notion, that the I (ego) could survive death.