... the church Fathers, especially second century Fathers, as well as by Augustine and Aquinas.It may help clarify matters if I first provide a brief map of where we will be going in this paper. After introducing the topic, I will discuss in turn what I take to be the three ... existence. I call the theory temporary disembodiment because it envisions the following scenario: We human beings are born, live for a time as psycho-physical beings, and then die; after death we exist in an incomplete state as immaterial souls; and some time later in the eschaton God miraculously ... in short, just ...

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... Hence the emergence of a cyber-community, which in effect appears to live in the 'online' space of the Internet unlike that of the physical space presented by reality (Allan 2000. Sv "Cybersocieties"). As Beniger notes: "Cyberspace does not merely consist of material objects (such as the computer ... to systems that offer users visual, auditory and tactile information about an environment which exists as data in a computer system rather than as physical objects or location (Heim 1993. Sv " The Essence of VR"). Heim pinpoints six divergent concepts currently guiding Virtual Reality resear...

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... their lives to pondering over these great questions of human life; however, they take drastically different views. Platonic thought has shaped much of the western world. Augustine, in contrast, came from a Christian perspective. Although Augustine never truly separated himself from the platonic influence, I would side with Augustine's views ... the nature of our humanity, I think it is still important to examine his philosophy since it has had a great impact on the western world. Plato believes that an individual is human only to the extent that he resembles or participates in the Form ...

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