1.5 Soul, Mind and Body QUOTES

Question 1

36 words, John Locke

Answer 1

“Which person was which? Is it the mind that makes the individual, or the body? What makes us what we are? is it our appearence, our memories, our individual personality traits, or is it something else?”

Question 1

35 words, Plato

Answer 1

“The body is the source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and is liable also to disease which overtake and impede us in the search of true being.”

Question 2

25 words, Gilbert Ryle

Answer 2

“‘the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine’ … I hope to prove that it is entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle.”

Question 3

20 words, Betrand Russell

Answer 3

“Compared the human to a river, once the water is gone from the bed what is left of the river?”

Question 4

23 words, Andrew Flew

Answer 4

“After some disaster when the ‘Dead’ and the ‘Survivors’ have both been listed, what logical space is left for a third category, ‘both’?”

Question 5

19 words, Richard Dawkins

Answer 5

“God didn’t promise Abraham eternal life as an individual. But he did promise him something else … God knew Darwinism.;”