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Life Flashcards

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What is life

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Anything that has a soul.

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What are the characteristics of living beings

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  1. Self Movement
  2. Unity
  3. Immanence
  4. Self Realization(fulfilment)
  5. Rhythm
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What is self movement

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A living being that has in itself the principle of its own movement. Doesn’t need external agents to propel them to move.

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What is Unity

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All living beings are one and cannot be divided without dying.

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What is Immanence

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These are actions are actions whose effects remain in the subject.

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What is Self fulfilment/realization

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This is the development and unfolding themselves in time.

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What is Rhythm

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All living things show a particular cycle, they grow, reproduce and eventually die.
The cycle of life is a movement that happens over and again.

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Are souls material ?

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The soul is not material for if it were, then all bodies would have life.

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What are the 3 degrees to life

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  1. vegetative
  2. animal
  3. human
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What are the characteristics of a vegetative life

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  1. Growth
  2. Reproduction
  3. Nutrition
  4. Excretion
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What makes animals different from plants

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Animals have senses plants do not. This is known as instinct.

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What are the four stimuli animals grasp ?

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  1. Present
  2. Distant
  3. Past
  4. Future
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What is instinct

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This is the tendency arising from sense perception.

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What are the characteristics of animal life

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  1. Automatism of the circuit stimulus response
  2. Intervention of sense perception
  3. Fulfilment of specific ends proper to the species
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What is the difference between Intellectual life and animal life ?

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In man the closed circuit “stimulus response “ is broken.

Decision making is introduced as they are not restricted by the sensitive appetite.

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What are some of the characteristics of human life

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  1. Man intellectually chooses his ends.
  2. Man does not conform to the needs of the species.
  3. Man is the only animal born tabula rasa meaning they have to learn how to do everything.
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What are some of our physical aspects that point to our spiritual dimension

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  1. The fact that the human body is not a specialized sort of body but a body that can adapt to various possibilities e.g. man has no one habitat , but can adapt to various environments through constructions, wearing clothes etc.
  2. His face is expressive
  3. He can speak
  4. His body is communicative
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What is dualism

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Man being a unity of body and soul.

Philosophical anthropology (8 decks)

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