Soul, Mind And Body Flashcards
What is the question of the Thesus ship?
If there is a wooden boat, and every time a piece needed repairing it was replaced by metal, is the now meta, ship the same boat as the wooden one?
What is the body theory?
The body theory states that we, as a person, are our physical body.
For example, if you go through something mentally traumatic, you are still you.
But if we cut our fingernails, or get an organ transplant, are we still ourselves! How much of our body must be replaced before we are no longer ourselves?
What is the brain theory?
The brain theory questions is we are our mind, body, or both of these things. If your brainw as out into another body and vice versa, who are you!
Your thoughts, memories, personalities etc are in another body that hasn’t actually experienced it. Are you still you?
What is the data theory?
Instead of swapping brains, scientists wipe all data and transfer it to another brain. ( someone else’s memory but my own brain) which is me?
What is Lockes prince and the pauper theory?
This states that personal identity us founded on visual memory.
The prince, in the paupers body, still believes he is a prince.
What is an argument against Lockes prince and the pauper theory?
What you’re remembering are expireienced of substance. It is not a memory of an expirence that makes it yours.
What did Plato believe about the soul?
He believed that even if we die, the soul exists and is able to think. The soul is broken into 3
The appetites= desire for pleasures, comforts and satisfactions
Spirited part= overcoming challenges/ anger when seeing injustice
The mind= our awareness, analysing and looking ahead
What did Aristotle believe about the soul?
Body= matter soul= form
If an axe were living, the soul would be the thing that made it an axe (its ability to chop). If it lost this, it wouldn’t be an axe, it would be wood and metal.
They are part of the same thing.
Soul is not capable of living without the body
