Abstract
This paper discusses the theory of rebirth as set forth in Classical Samkhya and Yoga and offers a new interpretive perspective.
Highlights
Michael Kinsley in his book, Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, quotes the following blunt question byLarry Ellison, CEO of Oracle: Death has never made any sense to me.How can a person be there and just vanish, just not be there?1Kinsley himself responds to Ellison’s question with the following comment: the question is not whether death makes sense to LarryEllison but whether Larry Ellison makes sense to death
For someone born in the United States in 2013, the most recent year for which there are final figures, life expectancy is 78.8 years
Bhās.ya for those who would like to see the full textual presentation.7 ]. These Hindu arguments of Pātañjala Yoga, I am inclined to think, come close to what Scheffler is attempting to argue in his book, Death and the Afterlife
Summary
Michael Kinsley in his book, Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, quotes the following blunt question by. The difference between the two doomsday scenarios, is that the latter is a somewhat ‘softer’ doomsday than the former, since the latter does not involve the death of friends, loved ones and the common world that we all enjoy in our current lifetimes Scheffler, it should be stressed, does not himself believe in any sort of personal afterlife or personal immortality. The doomsday scenarios, says Scheffler, make quite clear why this should be the case It should be noted, that Scheffler is inclined to agree for the most part with the argument of Bernard Williams that “immortality” as a general notion is as problematic as a personal after-life, because the reality of death that makes one life exciting and challenging precisely because of its constraints, would lead to an incoherent tedium or boredom with a state of immortality wherein all such constraints are absent.
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