soul, mind body

Question 1

general

Answer 1

what is the connection between physical body and thought

Is our Soul an object or spiritual substance

Question 2

substance dualism

Answer 2

plato

• substance dualist
• cycle of opposites.
• soul = permanent, world of forms. horaton is a cage
• soul, tripartite, analogy of chariot

Criticisms: davies, not everything has an opposite e.g. candle.

descartes

• 3 waves of doubt
• cogito, substance dualist
• pineal gland
• ryle
• flew
• geach, savage superstition
• hume, how do you recognise soul if it is immaterial
• gem anscombe, powerpoint
• Peter smith, wishful thinking
• too reductive
• williams, drugs go into body and affect mind

Question 3

property dualist

Answer 3

4 causes, soul is formal cause, body is material cause
soul animates body
soul does not survive death
vegetative, appetitive, intellectual

+geach
+aquinas, soul is the principle of life. need it to animate

Question 4

materialism

Answer 4

everything explained by science
no afterlife
soul 1 and 2 (soul 2, soul is personality)
survival machines
vehicles of genes
only evolutionists awe inspiring 

+russell, wish fulfilment
- ward and Swinburne. without soul, morality is a personal choice. need god to survive

behaviourism - type of materialism

• everything is a learned behaviour
• Pavlov dog
  however. .. dennet, reductionist. animals are not the same as humans (however.r.. singer and ockhams razor)

Question 5

monism

Answer 5

hick
body and soul cannot be separate at the point of death. Replica Theory - When a person dies, God creates a replica/duplicate of the person, which will then live on after death. The replica has all the same memories, the same appearance etc. God is omnipotent so has the power to be able to do this.

-vardy. how do we know the replica is the same person?