Question

Philosopher Bertrand Russell claims that one of the reasons we want to believe in an afterlife is because of admiration of human excellence. What does he mean by this? Why does he claim it is not a good reason to believe in the afterlife?

Answer 1

We as a human have fear of death and we have created a supreme power which we think is the one who controls death, and we have also created a bubble that their is a life after death. Almost every religion has talked about or wrote in their scriptures about afterlife. However the Bertrand Russel the great philosopher and Nobel price winner has some different view ,according to him we will die and or body will just rot , because there is no afterlife.All the happiness is in this world . According to him human is the most superior in this world and we should respect him ,there is no ine above human as he is outstanding , remarkable , so we should respect him.

According to Russel it is our emotions who makes us belief in after life , and most of important emotion is fear of death . Our body ka controled by brain and it is most the most complicated organ of the body which is still unsolved. However, our brain has different emotions and one of them is fear of death , this is because we have people around us who tells us about death and even we simply experience things which make us fear of death . However according to Russel belief in afterlife is purely emotional and there is no life after death it is all in our mind because our brain is controlling our emotion which makes us think of afterlife. That is why we should not believe in afterlife .