The Immortal Question of Immortality

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This paper focuses on the concept of immortality that has long been the subject of much debate among philosophers. The author states that the belief in immortality is directly connected to a belief in the afterlife, which is central to many religions. The paper concludes that all five of these philosophers maintained similar views on the afterlife and the concept of immortality.

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"In hopes of presenting a philosophical rather than strictly religious argument in favor of the immortality of the soul, Aquinas maintains that the only two ways a thing is able to be corrupted are in themselves and by accident. Given that no subsisting thing is corruptible, as Aquinas proved in some of his other works, and the rational soul is a subsisting thing, it follows that the rational soul is incorruptible, which causes it to consequently be immortal. Likewise, Plato professed his belief that something could only be destroyed by its own natural evil, the natural evil of the soul being vice. Since vice does not destroy the soul, nothing could destroy the soul."

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