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A comparison of two accounts of life after death and an evaluation of the strongest.
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A comparison of two accounts of life after death and an evaluation of the strongest. Materialism is the view that the body and mind are inseparable, and for there to be life after death then the body must be resurrected, this is much like the Christian view of life after death. John Hick was a materialist and he argued that, in certain circumstances, it would be possible that the dead could exist as themselves after death, if an exact replica were to appear. Hick uses thought experiments to show the person who dies in this World is the same person who is resurrected in the next. He uses examples of using a character called John Smith. If John smith were to disappear from his home in the USA and then suddenly appear in India with exactly the same characteristics, there would be no doubt that this is the same John Smith....
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