Sentences with phrase «subjective immortality of the soul»

In this particular context, Whitehead is presenting his own resolution to the problem posed by the fluency and transience of the world, so subjective immortality of the soul takes on the guise of a discarded alternative.

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But he does not deny it as a logical possibility.158 John Cobb has sought to defend at least the credibility of subjective immortality against criticisms from anthropology and cosmology.159 The anthropological objection is that the soul or mind can not exist apart from the body.

Without denying this objective immortality, David Griffin has examined the possibility of subjective survival more positively, 4 and John Cobb has speculated about the possible interpenetration of such souls in the hereafter in ways that overcome their possible self - centeredness.5 Marjorie Suchocki has also explored ways in which we may live on in God which are quite different from these conceptions of the immortality of the soul.6

In any case, though, to speak of a new body is to speak of a different sort of subjective immortality from that of a disembodied soul.