Body and Soul
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- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 24-12-12 13:15
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- Body and Soul
- Dualist = there is life after death
- Materialists = tend to reject l.a.d but can believe in bodily resurrection
- Monists = there is only one substance - matter, no l.a.d
- Plato
- Dualist - our souls have no beginnings and no ends.
- Analogy of the charioteer in charge of two horses: there are 3 aspects of the soul REASON (charioteer), SPIRIT and DESIRE (horses)
- The soul works best when reason is in charge as the horses try to pull different ways. A good persons soul is properly balanced
- The soul enables us to have knowledge as it is 'simple' and cant change. i.e the knowledge of beauty is known
- In the future the soul will be free and reincarnated into another body or returned to the realm of forms
- Geach rejects Plato as it questions disembodies souls as seeing is a process linked to the body and senses
- Aristotle
- The soul is the formal cause of the body
- the soul is the 'psyche'
- The soul CANNOT be divided from the body... WE ARE BODY AND SOUL
- If the body were an axe, the soul would be it's ability to chop
- The human soul has two parts the rational and irrational
- Every living thing has a soul (plants etc) but their souls are just irrational
- Does present a case that intellectual thought could possibly be eternal
- The soul cannot survive after death
- Descartes
- Heir of Platonic thought
- Realised that it could be logically possible to doubt the existence of the body (the matrix)
- However it is not possible to doubt 'I' exist as a thinking thing as there must be something doing the thinking
- There must be something doing the thinking = the mind or soul.. I AM MORE THAN JUST A BODY
- Realised that it could be logically possible to doubt the existence of the body (the matrix)
- However it is not possible to doubt 'I' exist as a thinking thing as there must be something doing the thinking
- There must be something doing the thinking = the mind or soul.. I AM MORE THAN JUST A BODY
- There must be something doing the thinking = the mind or soul.. I AM MORE THAN JUST A BODY
- However it is not possible to doubt 'I' exist as a thinking thing as there must be something doing the thinking
- Realised that it could be logically possible to doubt the existence of the body (the matrix)
- There must be something doing the thinking = the mind or soul.. I AM MORE THAN JUST A BODY
- However it is not possible to doubt 'I' exist as a thinking thing as there must be something doing the thinking
- Gilbert Ryle
- Descartes' belief in the soul was a category mistake
- E.G. A foreign visitor is given a tour of oxford uni.. he sees the colleges meets the lecturers but then after asks "where's the university?"
- So, just as the visitor makes a category mistake thinking there was something over and over what he'd seen, dualists make the same mistake with the soul
- John Hick
- Replica theory presents a way in which bodily resurrection can be understood
- Essentially, if someone were to die, there is a possibility that their replica is recreated by God in another world and is identical
- Christian link = close to what St. Paul teaches in 1 corinthians 15
- A replica is NOT the same as a copy as copies can be made hundreds of time
- There is only one 'replica' as each person can only exist at one place at one time, as people are individual
- Essentially, if someone were to die, there is a possibility that their replica is recreated by God in another world and is identical
- Rejects dualism but is a materialist
- Hick does not completely rule out the possibility that the mind and body are different entities
- We are 'psycho-somatic unity' = a unity of physical body and mind or soul
- Replica theory presents a way in which bodily resurrection can be understood
- Richard Dawkins
- We do not have a soul as he believes no part of a person is non-physical - we are a vehicle of genes
- Consciousness is caused purely by physical phenomena - electro-chemicals in brain
- Consciousness cannot be separated from the brain
- Man is a special case wonderful aspect of evolution
- MERRY CHRISTMAS
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