Euclid, Plato and Lonergan: Reflections on the Soul's Fate and Human Mortality

In their contribution, the authors offer some reflections on the classical philosophical issue concerning the immortality of the soul and the underlying one of human mortality as such. Firstly, an argument is given for the immortality of the human soul based on the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle and Lonergan, and then its merits are assessed. Secondly, the experiences of death and mortality are discussed, the notion of the soul’s immortality reintroduced, and its complex relationship with religious belief addressed. Minutiae aside, these reflections correspond to chapters nine and ten in their recent book, Why Believe? Approaches to Religion (Reykjavík: University of Akureyri, December 2018). It is the authors' hope that, by making these chapters available in the present volume of the Death and Anti-Death series, their book may find new and more readers, especially outside Iceland, where the book was published and is primarily distributed.