Philosophy II Flashcards
Plato and Aristotle; Mind, Soul and Body; Religious Language II
Plato and Aristotle
Heraclitus, Cratylus
Everything is in flux
You cannot step into the same river twice
Mind, Soul and Body
Plato, Phaedo
Soul
The soul is in the very likeness of the divine
Mind, Soul and Body
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Soul x2
First principle of life
Man is not a soul only, but something composed of soul and body
Mind, Soul and Body
Aristotle, De Anima
Soul
When seeing is removed, the eye is no longer an eye
Mind, Soul and Body
Descartes, Meditations
Indivisibility of soul
The body is by nature divisible, but the mind is not
Mind, Soul and Body
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
Counter to Descartes
Ghost in the machine
Mind, Soul and Body
Peter Geach, God and the Soul
Substance dualism is wrong
It is a savage superstition
Mind, Soul and Body
G.E.M. Anscombe, Analytical Philosophy and the Spirituality of Man
Non-materialist monism
Act of man qua spirit
Mind, Soul and Body
B. F. Skinner, About Behaviourism
Behaviourism
[Introspection is] collateral products of a person’s genetic and environmental histories
Mind, Soul and Body
Daniel C. Dennett, Skinner Skinned
Response to behaviourism
Basic analysis
Human beings would be little better than pigeons or wasps
Religious Language II
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic
Logical positivism x2
The downfall of metaphysics
Any literal significance
Religious Language II
A.J. Ayer
Why logical positivism failed
Could never find a clear cut principle
Plato and Aristotle
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies
Counter to Plato
Authoritarian Intellectualism
Plato and Aristotle
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
Theory of the Forms
Bottomless pit of nonsense
Plato and Aristotle
Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good
Analogy shows that X rather than sense perception leads to moral change
Deliberate reflection
