5: Human as Embodied Spirit Flashcards
“Man is a rational being.”
Aristotle
“Man is a social animal.”
Karl Marx
He believed that the essence of humanity and the source of all human activities is the SOUL.
Plato
“Man is his soul.”
Plato
He believes in the concept of matter and form
Plato
3 Parts of the soul
Appetitive
Spiritual
Rational
Part of the mind that dictates our hunger and appetite
Appetitive
Emotional part of our soul
Spiritual
The highest part of the soul that is responsible for decision-making base on perceptions. AKA the mind.
Rational
According to Plato, when can the soul finally be free from the body?
Death
The soul is more important than the body. Soul makes the man
Plato
Rationalist philosopher who stated that the “Man is the whole of his body and soul.”
Aristotle
Potentiality
Soul
Actuality
Body
“There is no form without matter, no matter without form.”
- No soul without a body, no body without a soul.
Aristotle
3 degrees of Soul
Nutritive Soul
Sensitive Soul
Rational Soul
Lowest degree of souls with the only purpose to sustain its own life through self-nutrition. (Plants)
Nutritive Soul
Second degree of souls with the abilities of instincts and intuition through feeling and sensing. (Animals)
Sensitive Soul
Highest degree of soul that encompasses all the degrees of souls. It needs a body to enact its greater purpose
Rational Soul
“The soul is not a soul if it is not the soul of the body.”
St. Augustine
Man is the unity of the body and soul. He can only exist as these two unite.
St. Augustine
The soul is separate from the body and is more important as it is immortal and capable of intelligent thoughts.
St. Augustine