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Afterlife: Philosophical Perspectives on Life Beyond Death
The afterlife in philosophy: Plato and Augustine on the immortality of the soul, Schopenhauer on death and the will, resurrection, reincarnation, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
The afterlife is the idea that death is not the end: that something of the person survives — a soul, a self, a stream of consciousness — or that the person is restored in some future state. The philosophy of the afterlife examines these claims.
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