Life In Samuel Scheffler's Life After Death

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Samuel Scheffler believed in life after death but it seems uninteresting. This is on the account that he believed that after an individual die, other individuals would continue to exist at least for a while before the doomsday. This led to the question, in what capacity would it be advisable for us to think about both our own demise and the proceeded with the presence of mankind? Samuel Scheffler uses two different premises to answer the above question. These premises include ending the world with a giant asteroid collision and infertility of humanity over 25years. However, these premises do not leave a superior clarification of the significance of afterlife that is enough. Also, if we are to acknowledge the possibility of the …show more content…

To Samuel Scheffler, life after death meant that when he died that that would be the end of him but other individuals he left in the world would continue to live for a short while (1). According to James Rachels and Stuart Rachels in their book “Problems from Philosophy”, Socrates asserts that individuals survive death through their immortal Soul. Socrates argues that every individual has two parts: the visible body and nonvisible soul. Socrates described the soul as a section of an individual that discerns, considers and possess sensation (Rachels and Rachels 39). Another article by James Kroemer described the relationship between the soul and the body after death as two different things that needed each other in this life and the next. James Kroemer believed that individuals continue to live after the body dies through the work done by the body (181). No clear explanations on these arguments on life after death. This would make us keep asking questions to find the …show more content…

Can this be true? I do not consider the above idea to be true. Samuel Scheffler did not provide enough information to determine if we think more about the unknown future individuals than those close to us. Also, we should value our lives while we are still alive instead of keeping it for future reference. However, individuals should care about the future which gives meaning to life. This would encourage us to put more effort into the things we do. Moreover, with respect to the inevitable demise of the world, this is questionable given contemplations of other world and the likelihood of effective propelled insight deciding the destiny of the world. More information is required for the inevitable demise of the universe to help know what, how, and when to plan if need

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