Body And Soul Flashcards
Plato on soul
Eternal essence of a person, survives independently
Plato on body
A shell, controlled by the soul and can only learn through sense experience
Body and soul
3 instincts the soul guides
Reason
Appetite
Emotion
Aristotle on soul
Inseparable from body, the psyche the part the remains the same, gives us our formal cause
Aristotle on body
Constantly changing
Plant souls
Nutritive souls, seek nourishment and reproduction
Animal souls
Distinguish pleasure and pain, can react to stimuli
Human souls
Can tell right form wrong
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Descartes
Lived in hyperbolic doubt- questioned everything even his reason
“I think therefore I am”
Our mind defines us, we can’t imagine ourselves without one but can imagine not having body
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Descartes pineal gland
“Principle seat of the soul”
Full of soul, spirit like animals controls memory, movement and senses
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Gilbert Ryle
Our talk of a self beyond the physical is a language error eg) team spirit
Category mistake
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Richard Dawkins
“Humans are survival machines”
We are only physical and instinctive
Rejects soul one, create soul 2: personality and individuality
