Self from Religious Viewpoint
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Self from Religious Viewpoint
The Afterlife is an area of human consciousness we all enter upon leaving the physical world at physical death. Throughout history weve questioned if there is a life after death. Along the way, our religions and various philosophers offered beliefs and opinions to answer this commonly asked question. However, many of the answers contradict each other making it hard to figure out. While some believe its impossible to know whether there is life after death, belief in immortality is a timeless phenomenon.
Through the years there have been many philosophers that do not believe in life after death. Among them is David Hume. David Hume was a British imperialist to the extreme. He only believed in what he could see. He felt that if you cant see your soul or god then they must not exist. The same holds true for the after life, or heaven.
He felt that when you died that was it, your life was over and there was nothing more.
Muangkram pg.2
Buddhists also do not believe in life after death meaning heaven. Buddhists believe that when one dies he is reborn again and this continues until the person reaches Nirvana.
Nirvana is the state in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion. In the Buddhist religion there is no god to save you or to show you the way. To reach nirvana you must achieve insight and wisdom. The Buddha was not saved by a revelation or from any god. He was the self-enlightened one; by the power of his own post virtue, which finally produced piercing insight and wisdom, he came to the knowledge or the saving insight into things as they are. He literally made himself a Buddha and subsequently entered Nirvana.
One of the great philosophers that did believe in life after death was