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I Am Justified In Believing There Is After-life, Even If Scientists Say Otherwise.
This is for a philosophy class so please think threw your answers and please insure they are as impartial as possible. Only logic provided through legitimate reasoning please.
 livijean  09 Aug 2012 19:22
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If the human soul exists, this strongly supports an afterlife.
There are strong reasons to believe the claim that the human soul exists.
Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude there is an afterlife.

Corollaries to the argument: 1. Science and the scientific method are valuable tools to explain naturalistic phenomenon, but it is irrational to claim that science is able to explain all truth. 2. The reasons to believe that the soul exists and how this truth claim relates to an afterlife is a formidable argument and requires significant time.

PS- you will score more points in a written argument by spelling correctly.
 
 charlee  14 Aug 2012 13:14
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 No it is perfectly fine to say science can explain all truth. but you have to be specific that science can explain only objective truth. A morally true thing cannot be justified by science but any natural phenomenon can. In other words subjective truths that are different for different people cannot be in any way proved by science especially if the matter is as abstract as the thoughts. but any subjective phenomenon that has its influence on the world that we know can be explain by science
by  VavoTK
 14 Aug 2012 15:53
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You can be justified in your own way to believe anything. Whether its true is another question.
 
 Antares  09 Aug 2012 19:58
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 Justification means being able to support one's belief with sound reasoning. It is not enough simply to say, "I believe it, and that simply justifies it."
I would call that simply, "an opinion" and not a truth claim.
by  charlee
 14 Aug 2012 13:18
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I cant physically stop you, but if you do and believe you need to be good in this life your wasting it. ( I'm not saying rob a bank) But don't do things because they will benefit you in the afterlife, because it doesn't exist.
 
 Bluesteak  26 Aug 2012 20:59
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Scientists don't say otherwise - they are only concerned with the empirical and the material. The afterlife that you believe in is presumably non-empirical, and therefore, something scientists are unconcerned with.

However, Antares' point is true. Anyone can be made to think their justification for something is entirely legitimate.
 
 limyaael  10 Aug 2012 22:29
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