10. Life after Death: Evaluation of Plato's approach
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- 10. Life after Death: Evaluation of Plato's approach
- Major influence on Christian thought
- Immortality of soul
- Noeton/heaven?
- Later ideas of reincarnation re similar to eastern religious notions of rebirth
- Helps explain the individuality of people (links with Freud's Id, Ego and Superego)
- Supporter: Descartes (Dualist):
- Soul is centre of identity
- Body/Soul somehow joined together but experienced separately
- "I think therefore I am"
- Cartesian dualism:
- Immaterial mind and material body (distinct substances) still intact
- Mental events cause physical events, and vice-versa.
- How can immaterial mind cause anything in material body, and vice versa?
- "problem of interactionism"
- How can immaterial mind cause anything in material body, and vice versa?
- Peter Geach rejects Plato's view.
- How can a disembodied soul see the Forms - this experience is linked to the body and senses
- Problems arise because all 3 elements are seen as necessary
- Appetitive and spirited elements seem to be connected to bodily llife
- If the soul is free when the body dies what happens to the appetitive part which is connected with the body
- Is the soul no longer complete?
- Issues of personal identity if only parts of soul survive
- Major influence on Christian thought
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