Reason and the Afterlife

[Mateo el Feo]

To what extent can reason alone (i.e. without the light of Faith and Divine Revelation) be used to prove/predict the afterlife and/or a person's soul continuing to live after physical death?

Any words of wisdom?

[jasJis]

[quote name='Mateo el Feo' post='954524' date='Apr 19 2006, 07:34 PM']
To what extent can reason alone (i.e. without the light of Faith and Divine Revelation) be used to prove/predict the afterlife and/or a person's soul continuing to live after physical death?

Any words of wisdom?
[/quote]Without the light of Faith or Divine Revelation, you're just staring into a well with a flashlight without batteries.

[rkwright]

doesn't kant say something that for any sort of morality to hold up there must be an afterlife in order to reward good and punish bad?? I haven't actually read much kant though so I wouldn't know, but I seem to remember something similar to that...

[Snarf]

Well, Socrates makes a case for it in the [i]Phaedo[/i], which although is a very excellent read and a staple in the history of philosophical religious thought, it's nowhere near convincing.