Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Philosophy
Reader 1
Yuval Avnur
Reader 2
Rivka Weinberg
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© 2017 Lucienne Altman-Newell
Abstract
It is widely known that at least three of the major world religions—Christianity, Islam, and (more controversially) Judaism—embrace the theory of bodily resurrection, or an event in which a person or people are brought back to embodied life after death. But is this theory compatible with materialism, or the philosophical doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications? In other words, if my “self” is identical with and nothing more than my body, could my unique and particular “self” come to exist again on Earth after my death? This thesis examines theories of compatibility from ancient times to the present day.
Recommended Citation
Altman-Newell, Lucienne, "Is Bodily Resurrection Compatible with Materialism?" (2017). Scripps Senior Theses. 1067.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1067
