Philo-Lesson 5 Flashcards
The immortal and noncorporeal essence of man
Spirit
Is a central concept in discussing the nature of the human soul.
Embodiment
It refers primarily to how the body, its senses, and perception define human function and consciousness.
Embodiment
That man is able to perceive and experience reality through his physical body.
Embodied cognition
As the departed spirits will be raised from the dead and receive the judgement of God.
Salvation of mankind
Believe that the human spirit or soul is composed of three parts
Plato
Three parts of soul or spirit
Logos, thymos, and epithymia
the mind or reason
logos
spirit
thymos
appetitie
epithymia
this is what makes the body move according to plato
soul
this is responsible for our having rational goals
reason
is the will or the drive toward an action
spirit
refers to the things that the body dersires
appetite
rejected Plato’s explanation and believed that the souls is not independent of the body but is integrated into the human being.
Aristotle
refers to the components that make up an object
matter
refers to the structure and arrangement of matter that actually give rise to the object itself.
form
considers the question of how the mental or nonphysical are able to interact with the physical body and to what extent one influences the other
Mind body problem
believes that physical processes determine the state of the mind
physicalism
holds that mental processes and thought are the only reality
idealism
argues that the human being is composed of elements that are neither physical or mental
monism
believes in the distinctiveness of the physical and mental natures of man.
Dualism
He is an Islamic philosopher; who argued that self-awareness and consciousness exist even if the body is deprived of it’s senses.
Avicenna
he proposed that the mind and body exist as two separate entities that interact with one another
Rene Descartes