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Mind-body dualism does not guarantee survival after death. — Carmelics

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Mind-body dualism does not guarantee survival after death.

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1.Descartes himself acknowledged in the Meditations that God's continuous sustaining power is required to preserve the soul's existence across time.
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2.If the soul's persistence depends on divine conservation rather than intrinsic indestructibility, dualism alone cannot guarantee survival without a separate theological premise.
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3.A philosophical thesis requiring supplementary theological commitments to entail survival is insufficient by itself to establish that survival occurs.
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1.Hume argued in the Treatise that personal identity consists in a bundle of perceptions with no underlying simple substance, compatible with dualism about mental events.
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2.Even granting immaterial mental substance, the bundle theorist can coherently hold that the causally unified pattern constituting a person dissolves at death.
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3.Dissolution of the person-constituting pattern suffices for non-survival regardless of whether the underlying substrate is physical or immaterial.
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1.A 'simple' soul, which cannot be dissolved into its constituent parts, might still fade away gradually until it has completely disappeared.
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2.The old arguments from the simplicity and alleged indestructibility of souls are out of favor.
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As we turn to the question of whether it is possible for persons to survive death, it is natural to pursue an answer in light of the philosophy of human persons. The next section considers survival from the standpoint of mind-body dualism.

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Perspectives: 3 (2 for, 1 against)
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