Self and Life After Death | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)
Self and Life After Death
- 23 questions
- 2 subtopics
- Component 1 Section A: philosophy of religion
- Component 1
The soul, body and mind, dualist and materialist accounts, personal identity, and what each implies for surviving death..
It covers descartes, the Soul and Radical Doubt and personal Identity and Survival.
Sample questions from Self and Life After Death
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Descartes, the Soul and Radical Doubt
What famous conclusion does Descartes reach through his method of radical doubt?
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'I think, therefore I am' (cogito ergo sum), the certainty that he exists as a thinking thing. -
Descartes, the Soul and Radical Doubt
What central issue does the body/soul relationship concern?
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How an immaterial soul and a material body can interact and influence each other. -
Personal Identity and Survival
What implication does materialism have for personal survival after death?
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Personal survival appears impossible unless the body is resurrected or reconstituted, since there is no separate soul to survive. -
Personal Identity and Survival
What challenge is raised against the coherence of disembodied existence?
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Whether personal identity and consciousness are coherent without embodiment, given that our experiences and sense of self seem tied to bodily sensation and location.
The 2 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Descartes, the Soul and Radical Doubt | Recall questions on what the soul is taken to be and on the steps of Descartes' method of doubt and what it leaves standing. | 13 |
| Personal Identity and Survival | Recall questions on what personal identity concerns and on what dualism and materialism each imply for surviving death. | 10 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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