Philosophy question (chapter 3) Flashcards
Confine comes from the Latin confinis made of two words
Con - together and finis - ‘end, limit or territory’.
Is a statement that brings together two opposing ideas as true at the same time.
A paradox
Who said this “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history”
Mahatma Gandhi
who said that a man has an immortal and a mortal perishable body. And said that the soul has tripartite nature
Socrate’s Student - Plato
What are the tripartite nature of the soul?
- A soul or an immortal rational part, which existed before it became part of the
body - A courageous or a spirited part
- An appetitive part
“is the giver of life to the body, the permanent, changeless and divine element as opposed to the changing, transitory and perishable body. “
The soul
Who potrayed the life of St. Augustine in his book titled “The Restless Flame”
The novelist Luis de Wohl
According to whom ““a soul in possession of a body” which does not constitute two persons but one man. The human soul is an immaterial principle which animates/gives life to the body”
St. Augustine
Who said that “the human person is created after the image and likeness of God, and what makes him as such is his power of reason and will.”
St. Augustine
res cogitans and res extenza meaning
thinking thing and extended thing
Who said that on the one hand, we relate to our bodies as if it is something that we have.
Gabriel Marcel
Who said that the root of the problem in this broken world is that we have forgotten how to reflect.
Gabriel Marcel
Who articulated the meaning of the inextricable union of mind and body. He pointed out that there is no experience that is not an embodied experience.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
We learn how to live in the world through the constant “______________” between our bodies and the world
Communication
He believes that body has knowledge. The most important it introduced is the realization that the body is not a mindless tool waiting for the spirit to move it. The body learns things long before we become conscious of what it learns.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
