Self, death and the afterlife OoooOOooO Flashcards
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What is Dualism?
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The theory that there exist both bodies and minds, distinct from one another, but linked together in some way.
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Who is Plato?
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A pupil of Socrates and a major influence on the development of Western Philosophy.
3
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What shows Plato’s Theory of Forms?
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It is illustrated in the Allegory of the Cave.
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What did Plato say about true reality?
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that true reality existed beyond normal perceptions of the world.
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what do we perceive according to Plato?
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Shadows of the truth
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what is the world we live in according to Plato?
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Poor imitation of the real world.
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What is the real world that our world is not?
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The real world is eternal and unchanging. It is the world of ideas, not senses. Where there are perfect forms of everything.
