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 Introduction
 For a religious person, it indicates specific attitude towards life & world
 It has been widely accepted by both Eastern & Western philosophers
 Immortality of soul indicates 2 things : Presence of soul in future life & it is a
higher and perfect life full of happiness
 Various Arguments in favor of it are :
1. Plato’s Metaphysical Argument
2. Plato’s Epistemological Argument
3. KANT’s Moral Arguments
4. Para-psychological Arguments
5. Argument related to conservation of Energy
6. Argument related to conservation of Values
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 Plato’s Metaphysical Argument

 Soul : by nature simple & indivisible; Body : divisible & complex

 Very nature of Soul is life whereas that of Body is death : as life is
incompatible with death
 Simply, Soul never dies, it is body which dies
 Hence Soul is immortal !

 Criticism : Few questions remained unexplained by Plato like-

 How Soul is simple?
 How life & death co-exist together i.e. soul & body?

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 Plato’s Epistemological Argument
 Soul : knower, base of knowledge
 All knowledge is innate in Soul, it exists prior to birth
 Such knowledge awakens only when external situations are encountered
through senses
 This is Doctrine of Reminiscence i.e. Recollection

 Criticism : Plato didn’t answer –

 How Soul attained all the knowledge?

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