bwct philo Flashcards
“Man is always more than what he knows about himself”
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy
Existentialist philosopher
Known in the philosophy of mind
From being a psychiatrist, Jaspers turned to philosophical inquiry and attempted to discover an innovative philosophical system
Karl Jaspers
Our being is lost in a context of total determination. Thus, questions such as “who am I?” lead us to the depth of our being. (Karl Jaspers)
This task will call us to leave the ‘ordinariness’ of the given time and context in our existence
Discovering the Self
Generally and commonly defined to represent the entire human race
Man
Various classifications and species
For a living man, is under the classification of Mammalia
Human
Term used to separate man from other human classifications like animals
Human Being
Term used to separate man from other human classifications like animals
Human Being
Individual who possesses self-awareness, self-determination, rational mind (rational beings know that you are a body and soul), and the capacity to interact with others and with himself/herself
Person
State of being a person with unique, sacred, and ethical status within himself/herself
Personhood
Deepest and natural behavior of a person that distinguish from animals
Human Nature
With a body, which is tangible and has 3 components: soul, mind, and spirit
Entitled and granted rights and privileges by the state which he or she legally belongs
Human Person
-Animating core living within each of us
-Driving force behind what we actually think, do, and say
-refers to the inseparable union of human and soul
-The body is not separate from the soul, just as the soul is not separate from the body
embodied spirit
-Karl Jaspers name the situations that is inevitable in our existence as ‘limited’ human beings
-It opens us an opportunity to engage in the philosophical question, “who am i?”
-Leads us to sometimes question the answers that we usually associate with it
-The “I” will be the content of the question itself
Boundary Situations
-Karl Jaspers name the situations that is inevitable in our existence as ‘limited’ human beings
-It opens us an opportunity to engage in the philosophical question, “who am i?”
-Leads us to sometimes question the answers that we usually associate with it
-The “I” will be the content of the question itself
Boundary Situations
This common human experience breaks us away from our
Conventional and mundane patterns of life
Theory that the mental and the physical – or mind and body or mind and brain – are, in some sense, radically different kinds of thing
Dualism
Philosophy attributes the soul or spirit as the mind or our mental capacity
Dualism
Philosophy attributes the soul or spirit as the mind or our mental capacity
Dualism
The soul exists prior to the body and even after the body is gone
Theory of Forms
The body and soul are separable
The body and soul are different substances and have different functions (Dualism)
Improved by Rene Descartes
Theory of forms
Theory of Forms is improved by
Rene Descartes
It asserts that the physical realm is only a shadow, or image, of the true reality of the Realm of Forms
Everything we see is just a reflection of those in the world of forms
World of Matter (Material Realm)
Unchanging
The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death
Soul: Immaterial, indestructible, immutable, unchanging; parang sperm cell; independent of the body; immortal
All truths of things are here
The human soul pre-existed in the world of forms ideas; this is why the soul is immortal
Full of perfection
World of Forms (Eternal Realm)
Unchanging
The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death
Soul: Immaterial, indestructible, immutable, unchanging; parang sperm cell; independent of the body; immortal
All truths of things are here
The human soul pre-existed in the world of forms ideas; this is why the soul is immortal
Full of perfection
World of Forms (Eternal Realm)
pre-existed in the world of forms ideas. This is why the soul is immortal.
Human Soul
Just a soul using a body
After death, the body is left in the world of matter to rot, while the soul rises to the world of forms and wait for another body
Human Person
who said? The soul and body are one. At birth, there is a soul and a body. The soul since birth is the same until death. A human person needs a soul and a body to live.
Body and soul are inseparable
Improved by St. Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle