Soul, Mind, Body

Question 1

Dualism

Answer 1

The belief that humans are made up of material body and non material soul

Question 2

Plato

Answer 2

Soul belongs to world of the forms

Eg of charioteer

1 knowledge
2 opposites

Question 3

P. Geach

Answer 3

How can a disembodied soul see the forms since this is a physics process?

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

Soul body distinct

Soul dies with body

Cannot be separated eg axe

Question 5

Substance dualism

Answer 5

Two elements are two wholly different substances

Question 6

Descartes

Answer 6

Argues that the body is spatial and not conscious - mind is opposites, has thoughts/ feelings

Body is divisible/ soul is not eg amputations

Pineal gland (seat of imagination. Interaction)

Question 7

Gilbert Ryle

Answer 7

‘Ghost in the machine’

Category error

Body/mind are irreducible

Question 8

Ghost in the machine

Answer 8

The ghost is the mind and the machine is the body. How could a immaterial substance control a material body?

Question 9

Category error

Answer 9

Descartes assumes everything can be categorised (eg a foreigner touring oxford colleges, the library and sports grounds asks where the university was)

Question 10

GEM Anscombd

Answer 10

Eg pointing requires a description of thought but also a body to act. It’s an act of a human as a whole, both body and spirit