Mental life of action and sensory
The question of survival after death is related to the mind-body problem, which we discussed earlier. If dualism is truc, and each person consists of a soul and a body connected together, we can understand how life after death might be possible. The soul would have to be able to exist on its own and have a mental life without the help of the body: then it might leave the body when the body dies, instead of being destroyed. It wouldn't be able to have the kind of mental life of action and sensory perception that depends on being attached to the body (unless it got attached to a new body)
What does it all mean, Thomas Nagel
I don't understand the word "of" between "mental life" and "action".
I think it needs a comma between "mental life" and "of action". Is it right.
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It is correct as written. Are you familiar with phrases such as, say, a "life of crime" or a "life of luxury"? Just as the words "crime" and "luxury" explain the main activity or circumstance of a person's life in these phrases, so "action and sensory perception" explain the actitives of "mental life" in your example.
- It is correct as written.
- Are you familiar with phrases such as, say, a "life of crime" or a "life of luxury"?
- Just as the words "crime" and "luxury" explain the main activity or circumstance of a person's life in these phrases, so "action and sensory perception" explain the actitives of "mental life" in your example.
- In other words, once the soul leaves the body, it will no longer be able to enjoy (physical) actions or sensory perception (as it has no physical substance).
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It is correct as written. Are you familiar with phrases such as, say, a "life of crime" or a "life of luxury"? Just as the words "crime" and "luxury" explain the main activity or circumstance of a person's life in these phrases, so "action and sensory perception" explain the actitives of "mental life" in your example. In other words, once the soul leaves the body, it will no longer be able to
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