Midterms philo Flashcards
A philosophical position that there is a radical difference between mind and matter.
Dualism
There exists two kinds of substance.
BODY- non-physical substance
MIND- physical substance
Substance dualism
Mental Phenomena are non-physical properties of the physical phenomena but not
properties of non-physical substances.
Property dualism
Plato: the body is a
Prison that confined the soul, thus becomes limited (likened to a soul)
Plato: the soul is a
Compelled to the truth, aims to disassociate from the body (likened to a chariot)
French Philosopher who claimed that Truth must be anchored in an indestructible criterion which is
anchored to the principles of mathematics
Rene Descartes
A man is
The thing that thinks
Thinking Substance, the thing that thinks, the only thing that defines man
Res cognitas- mind
Extended substance, an extended thing, extension of the thinking thing
Res Extensa- body
indubitable basis of our judgments, an embodied being
Cogito
man is a product of the evolutionary processes of nature.
Physical Crosspoint
to make incarnate a meaning which proceeds from the inner person and makes it visible or present
through a roper body structure.
Embodiment
It is the unity of body an soul
Human person
Man is a crosspoint or point of intersection of physical, interpersonal, social, and historical lines of
events.
- Man is a limitation and possibility. Limitation as finitude, and possibility as capacity to
transform/transcend.
- Man is a project where he is considered as a destiny and a task.
Historical action
each one of us belongs to interpersonal lines of events
Interpersonal crosspoint
man is a product of past generations which formed the society in which one lives.
Social crosspoint
- “I place myself outside of the thing I am inquiring on”
- “A BODY”, an objective idea apart
Objectum: thrown in front
- “I am part of the thing I am investigating”
- “MY BODY”, a body full of life, the self
Subjectum: thrown beneath
“I own my body, I treat it as an instrument in order to possess and use other things.”
Body as instrument
“there-being”, has the capacity to realize the meaning of its existence considering its situation
as being thrown into a world of endless possibilities
Dasein
Man is in a constant unveiling and revealing of oneself called as
Alethiea
Is the proponent of dasein where he defined man as always ahead-of-
himself. He is thrown into the world where he/she realizes himself or herself as one who is absorbed
in things and people.
Martin Heidegger
Man is a being-in-the-world through his
Body
ANTHROPOCENTRISM
- Philosophical viewpoint arguing that man is the central or most significant entity in the world.
- Nature serves the interest of man
- Humans are the loci of fundamental value
- Man is self-ending, self-centering, idolizes himself
