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    Personal identity across lives requires some persisting c... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A karmic system of cosmic justice requires a persisting self

    Personal identity across lives requires some persisting constituent that carries over from one life to the next

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    This line of objection to the Buddha’s teaching of non-self is more commonly formulated in response to the argument from impermanence, however. Perhaps its most dramatic form is aimed at the Buddha’s acceptance of the doctrines of karma and rebirth. It is clear that the body ceases to exist at death. And given the Buddha’s argument that mental states all originate in dependence on sense-object contact events, it seems no psychological constituent of the person can transmigrate either. Yet the Bu

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