Lesson 1 Human Person as an Embodied Spirit Flashcards
What is an Embodied Spirit?
A spirit being incarnated. The body is not separate from the soul. Point of convergence between material and spiritual entities.
It is being materialized or incarnated.
Embodied.
It is based on Christian Philosophy, the inseparable union of body and soul.
A human person as an embodied spirit.
We cannot talk of anything without the union of: _____ and ______
Matter and Form
Understanding of our Embodied Spirit is important because?(2)
Enables to know potentialities and limitations.
Exposes us to a thorough deeper understanding of ourselves as a unique creature united by body and soul.
For Plato, the nature of the human person is seed in the _______ _______.
Metaphysical Dichotomy between body and soul.
This says that there is an inherent contradiction between the body and the soul.
Dichotomy.
According to Plato, the body is?
Material. Which means it is mutable and destructible.
According to Plato, the soul is?
Immaterial. Which means it is immutable and indestructible.
According to Plato, the body’s existence is _____ on the soul; while the soul is ______ on the body.
Dependent, independent.
He argued that the soul existed prior to the body.
Plato.
What were the 3 parts of the soul according to Plato?
Rational, Spiritual, Appetitive.
For Plato the RATIONAL soul was located in the?
Head.
For Plato the SPIRITUAL soul was located in the?
Chest.
For Plato the APETTITIVE soul was located in the?
Abdomen.
The spiritual and appetitive soul contributes to the?
Motion and activity of the whole person.
Rational soul was meant to?
Guide the spiritual and appetitive soul.
It drives the human person to experience thirst, hunger, and other physical wants.
Appetitive soul.
It drives the human person to experience abomination, anger, and other emotional feelings.
Spiritual soul.
It enables the human person to think, reflect, analyze, comprehend, conclude etc. Highest of all parts of the soul.
Rational soul.
According to ancient thoughts, the understanding about human person is based on their _________ and ________ of the world.
Knowledge and interest.
‘Know thyself’
Socrates.
