Philo RV3-The Person as an Embodied Spirit Flashcards
TWO APPROACHES IN UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN PERSON:
METAPHYSICAL APPROACH:
EXISTENTIAL APPROACH:
Kinds of substances or materials and capacities that uniquely make up a human person.
Essential components of a human person
METAPHYSICAL APPROACH:
Focuses on the kind of life, mode of existence that is unique to a human person.
Essential features of the human way of life.
EXISTENTIAL APPROACH:
the what of a human person
Kung ano gusto mo
Biological/anatomical approach:
bones, muscles, tissues, cells, organs, etc.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
METAPHYSICAL APPROACH:
the who of a human person
Soul: life-giving function
Your will, mind
Mind-consciousness
Spirit-non-bodily, non-biological.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
EXISTENTIAL APPROACH:
COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN PERSON
QUESTIONS:
What makes up a Human Person?
Which Component (bodily or Spiritual) makes up a Human Person?
COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN PERSON
UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW
DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
EMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW:
The human person is just his body and nothing more.
Humans have no spiritual component
Kung naniniwala ka dito, nainiwala ka sa HEDONISTIC: sulitin mo
UNSPIRITED BODY VIEW
Mental states (Kalagayan like thoughts and emotions) are just physical states.
Unspirited View
the mind is nothing but the brain, mental states are nothing but neural states of the brain.
Happiness: endorphins, Pain: C-fibers
Kung wala kang brain, makakaramdam ka ba?
Mind is nothing, but a brain
Function lang ng brain lahat ng nararamdaman
MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY:
Unspirited body view
Mental states simply refer to ore’s inclinations/tendencies to show certain behaviors
To be in pain=inclination to cry, remove the source of pain
To believe it is raining=bring an umbrella
Lahat ng ginagawa mere tendencies/ natural behavior lang
Kunwari sinampal kita, iiyak ka
BEHAVIORISM
The HUMAN PERSON is just essentially his spirit.
HUMANS have bodies and spirits but the spirit essentially defines the human person
The BODY is a non-essential component
Body is dependent on the spirit, spirit is not dependent on the body
Tayong lahat ay may espirito
DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
is a non-essential component in DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
BODY
is dependent on the spirit, spirit is not dependent on the body DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
Body
have bodies and spirits but the spirit essentially defines the human person DISEMBODIED SPIRIT VIEW
HUMANS
amo ergo sum
I love, therefore, I am
Supported by PLATO AND RENE DESCARTES
DISEMBODIED VIEW
THE SPIRIT (OR soul by Plato, or mind by Descartes) and the body are two different kind of entities/substances:
BODY is physical,
SPIRIT is nonphysical:
SUBSTANCE DUALISM
Spirit is independent of the body, can survive without the body, body cannot survive without the spirit
Hindi kailangan ng spirit ang katawan pero di kaya ng body
DISEMBODIED VIEW
who support DISEMBODIED VIEW
PLATO AND RENE DESCARTES
Soul is immortal. Otherwise, we can never explain the nature of knowledge as recollection (“to learn is to remember”)
One learns by remembering what we once knew but have once forgotten
PLATO: DISEMBODIED VIEW
“SOULS are immaterial, cannot be composed of parts, they cannot decompose or die.”
Plato believed in reincarnation
PLATO: DISEMBODIED VIEW
[] is conscious but not extended in space (not observable, not quantifiable). sino nagsabi at ano
DESCARTES: Mind
Mind (nonphysical) plus matter (physical) equals reality.
DESCARTES: DISEMBODIED VIEW