Argumentative Essay: What Is A Dualist?

Also, people contain morals and goodness which tend to be valued. Not to mention, moral laws are objective realities and if this is true than physicalism would be false because both those things are non physical. Likewise, a dualist could argue that, yes the soul cannot be weighed or seen however, neither can numbers or values and they still exist. Dualist tend to be believers in religions and faiths that promise immortality of the soul and tend to not fear death because there is so much to look forward to after life on earth. I believe that a dualist has more legitimate pieces of evidence to support their claims and prove that not everything on earth is physical and material. As a society we believe in a lot of things that don’t posses a physical state such as numbers, letters, and values. How
Also, reincarnation tends to support the sense of an afterlife because it shows that our souls can live on in another being once our physical body has died. There tends to be less evidence for this belief however, it does give people hope that there is something to believe in after death. Finally, psychics who can communicate with the dead show believers that people that have passed are still in a place where their souls can be happy. Ultimately, psychics show us that the souls of our loves ones can watch over us and can still be involved in our lives without us knowing. All of these claims however, have critics and skeptics that do not support them. Rachels in his essay “Do We Survive Death?” points out many of the criticisms for these arguments and tends to show the reader that he does not believe in an afterlife for the soul. I tended to listen to Rachels argument and take it into consideration however, I usually