On 20 Mar 2013, at 11:43, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net
> wrote:
http://www.closertotruth.com/video-profile/What-is-the-Nature-of-Personal-Identity-Peter-van-Inwagen-/176
He starts off with a straightforward, materialist position. Then he
reveals he is a Christian, believes in the resurrection of the body.
How is this to be accomplished? Not by reproducing the dead person,
since then there could be multiple copies, which he finds
unacceptable. So God must do it using some occult method neither
science nor philosophy can fathom.
Of course the Christians have an easy way to answer this: '---God's
way are not human conceivable'.
This of course leads to arbitrariness in the argument. That might be
true, but still cannot be used in an argument.
It reminds me the book by Ford(*), a priest who argued that the soul
is not duplicable (which in comp can be said correct from the soul's
point of view, and false from the third person point of view). From
this he inferred that God will not endow something duplicable with a
soul, and so he concluded ... that a woman can abort her pregnancy
during the first three weeks of the embryogenesis, as during that time
there are case of embryo duplications. That book is well written, and
is good philosophy (with disputable premises, though).
Bruno
(*) FORD N. M., 1988, When did I begin?, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
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