We believe in existence of something by using our sensory organs and system. for example we see, touch, taste,.. something and it gives us enough ground to believe the existence of the case. but the question is how does belief in existence of soul become justified even tough soul is not tangible by any sense?
human has lots of features like creativity, emotion, reasoning, free will, consciousness, goal to win,... believers of soul say that some kind of human features like what are already mentioned above can not be explained only with materialism so we need to appeal to dualism theory. Dualism theory asserts that human has a soul beyond and independent of his body. by appealing to this view we can explain these features so soul must exist.
A question for thinking and elaboration:
Aren't those features actually explainable with matrialists' view?
for more information go to Professor Shelly Kagan's online course.
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