After reading ‘The trial and death of Socrates’ it seems western philosophers consider the soul as a never ending part of the body. Most of the notes below needs follow up reading regarding the topics.  

Philosophical argumentation has always been a logical process to solve certain criteria in order to obtain answers where there can be the same answer for the different questions or problems.  Although the results of this process is more effective between two or more parties it is very dependable of the capabilities of the other parties and the effectiveness to transfer your own argument to be best understood.

Nevertheless topics to be discussed is argumentation, mind and body problem, theories of personal identity, free will and determinism and the age old question about death.