Concept of the Afterlife

Plato was essentially a substance dualist. He argued for the immortality of our intellectual and rational souls as a separate entity that survived the destruction of our physical bodies (Hicks 235). Thus, he did not believe that our souls required physical bodies to exist. John Hicks, however, demonstrates how this Platonic ideal of immortality transformed into the Judeo-Christian belief in resurrection as people became increasingly concerned with personal identities and individualism (Hicks 237-238). The act of survival after death then became a divine act and the idea of Heaven as a divine reward gave purpose to our mortal existence (Hicks 238-240). At the same time, however, the idea that the afterlife was demonstrated through reincarnation raised the issue of the need for a physical embodiment of

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