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Debates on Life After Death in Modern Western Thought: A Critical Analysis

Year 2010, Volume: 51 Issue: 1, 15 - 46, 01.04.2010
https://doi.org/10.1501/Ilhfak_0000001012

Abstract

The themes of resurrection of humans, life after death and immortality have religious, philosophical, ethical and psychological aspects and been questioned since the dawn of civilization. It is arguably the most crucial and most personal question that can be asked in light of the realization of one’s own mortality. The resurrection of dead bodies is an innermost doctrine of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to which many passages could be found referring in the Scriptures. This theme is not an empirical one, therefore many controversies arise around it. One crucial controversy is whether resurrection relates to the flesh or just to the soul or some spiritual body. This is by far the most discussed facet of the matter. Leaving aside the atheistic arguments against resurrection, those who consider themselves within a religious tradition virtually accept a kind of life after that, be it bodily or spiritual resurrection. In order to make it explicable to common human mind, not just to believers, the problem has to be handled anthropologically, too. In my paper, starting from anthropology and so outlining the debate on human nature, I tried to transform the matter into a human one and accordingly summed the arguments around it

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  • Wisdom, John, Problems of Mind and Matter, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Modern Batı Düşüncesinde Ölüm Sonrasına İlişkin Tartışmalar: Eleştirel Bir Tahlil

Year 2010, Volume: 51 Issue: 1, 15 - 46, 01.04.2010
https://doi.org/10.1501/Ilhfak_0000001012

Abstract

Yaşamı boyunca başkalarının ölümünü gözleyen ve kendisinin de bu sürecin bir parçası olacağından hiç şüphe duymayan insanın hayatında sorguladığı en ciddi mesele ölüm ve sonrasıdır. Meselenin tecrübeye konu edilebilecek türden olmaması, doğal ve haklı olarak, ölümden sonraki hayatın nasıllığına ilişkin tartışmalara Teoloji, Etik, Tıp, Psikoloji vb. disiplinlerin müdahil olmasını gerektirmiştir. Buna bağlı olarak, insanı ölümden sonraya taşıyacak bir unsura (örneğin ruha) sahip olup olmadığı yahut varlığa çıkışının mucize oluşu gibi, ölümden sonra da yine benzer bir yeniden dirilme mucizesiyle mi hayat bulacağı görüşleri, tartışmanın odağını oluşturmuştur. Elinizdeki metin, bu meselenin Batı düşüncesinde nasıl tartışıldığını tanımlayıcı bir tarzda ortaya koymakta ve yeri geldiğinde İslam düşüncesiyle karşılaştırmalara gitmektedir

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  • Borst, C.V., (ed.), The Mind/Body Identiy Theory, London: Macmillan, 1970.
  • Davis, Stephen T.,“Philosophy and life after death: the Questions and Options,” Brian Davies(ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A guide and anthology, Oxford, 2000.
  • _____, “Survival of Death,” P.Quinn & C. Taliaferro (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, UK: 1997.
  • Davies, Paul, Tanrı ve Yeni Fizik, terc. M.Temelli, İstanbul: İm Yayınları, tsz.
  • Edwards, Paul, (ed.), Immortality, Prometheus Books, 1997.
  • Flew, Anthony, The Logic of Mortality, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
  • _____, “Can a Man Witness His Own Funeral?” The Hibbert Journal, 54 (1956).
  • Griffin, David Ray, God and Religion in the Postmodern World, N.York: State Univ. Press, 1989.
  • Hick, John, Death and Eternal Life, London, 1985.
  • Khan, Wahiduddin, Religion and Science, trans. Farida Khanam, New Delhi: Al-Risale Books.
  • Koç, Turan, Ölümsüzlük Düşüncesi, İstanbul, 2005.
  • Madell, Geffrey, Mind and Materialism, Edinburgh, 1988.
  • Meyerovitch, Eva de Vitray, Güneşin Şarkısı, İstanbul: Şule Yay., 2008.
  • Peterson M., Hasker W., Reichenbach B., Basinger D., Akıl ve İnanç, terc. Rahim Acar, İstan- bul: Küre Yayınları, 2006
  • Philips, D.Z., Death and Immortality, London, 1970.
  • Platon, Phaedo, 63B-65A.
  • Price, H.H., “Survival and the Idea of ‘Another World’,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychi- cal Research, vol.50 (1953).
  • Price, H.H., “Personal Survival ad the Idea of Another World,” John Hick (ed.), Classical and Contemporary Readigns in the Philosophy of Religion, London, 1964.
  • Royce, James, Man and His Nature: A Philosophical Psychology, London: McGraw-Hill Book Com. Inc., 1961.
  • Quinton, Anthony, “The Soul,” W.L.Rowe & W.J.Wainwright (ed.), Philosophy of Religion, USA,1989.
  • Taylor, A.E., “Immortality,” George I. Mavrodes and Stuart Hackett (ed.), Problems and Pers- pectives in the Philosophy of Religion, New York, 1969.
  • Trigg, Roger, “The Metaphysical Self,” Charles Taliaferro & P. Griffiths (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An Antology USA, 2003.
  • Wisdom, John, Problems of Mind and Matter, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Yasa, Metin, Felsefi ve Deneysel Dayanaklarla Ölüm Sonrası Yaşam, Ankara, 2001.
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Journal Section Research Article
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Şaban Ali Düzgün This is me

Publication Date April 1, 2010
Published in Issue Year 2010 Volume: 51 Issue: 1

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Chicago Düzgün, Şaban Ali. “Modern Batı Düşüncesinde Ölüm Sonrasına İlişkin Tartışmalar: Eleştirel Bir Tahlil”. Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 51, no. 1 (April 2010): 15-46. https://doi.org/10.1501/Ilhfak_0000001012.