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John Hick

John Hick. I will know about John Hick’s views on the body-soul debate and how this might be applied to life after death. NB: Keep doing wider reading to consolidate notes. There are quite a few dialogue articles for this topic. Double trouble …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgHX-tXLR4.

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John Hick

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  1. John Hick I will know about John Hick’s views on the body-soul debate and how this might be applied to life after death. NB: Keep doing wider reading to consolidate notes. There are quite a few dialogue articles for this topic

  2. Double trouble … • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQgHX-tXLR4 • QUESTIONS: • How would you feel if you had a • double? • If it was possible for you to die, and • to then create an exact replica of • yourself, would that person still be • you?

  3. N. Identify (Scholars, Key terms)S. Describe (Tell me)E. Explain (Develop)W. Evaluate (Analyse) Literary Orienteering Use the handout to find the following: • Christian Views • Creationism • Traducianism • John Hick on the Soul • John Hick’s views about life after death • Replica Theory

  4. Hick’s rejection of substance dualism • Christian theologian John Hick (Born in Yorkshire 1922) rejects the traditional belief in body-soul dualism by essentially adopting a materialist position and arguing that this does not weaken the possibility of life after death!

  5. Hick’s aims: • Hick aims to show that the concept of life after death does not depend on human beings having souls in the Platonic sense. Humans are a psycho-physical unity, the death of the body is the death of the person, there is no separate soul to live on. Hick argues that this does not rule out our existence after death. It is logically possible for an all-powerful God to recreate us in another world, i.e. heaven. Hick defends this view with three thought experiments. See pg 97 of textbook.

  6. Task – Summary mind map • On one sheet of paper, produce a summary mind map of the different looked at so far, with regards to the Soul • Plato, Aristotle, Dawkins, Hick • Begin to write up an evaluation bank.

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