Human identity: what are people like in the afterlife? – 2

Anthropology, Classics, Life, Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies November 24, 2009 Leave a comment

Ms Rex gave an adapted version of this talk to the IIIrd & IVth-form WP about what the great traditions, from Homer and the Old Testament, through Plato and into Christianity and Dante, have said about what of our selves survives after death. An episode of the Simpsons (“Heaven and Hell”) reinforced the ideas she was discussing.

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