Concepts of the Soul
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- Concepts of the Soul
- Plato
- Psuche - breath of life
- Embraces a dualistic understanding of the person
- Soul and body distinct entities
- Body connected to the illusory world of appearances - finite, mutable, corruptible, divisible
- Soul immaterial, perfect, immutable, indivisible, eternal, contains information on the Forms
- Soul and body distinct entities
- Aristotle
- Soul activating principle of life
- Dualist in that the body and soul are inextricably linked - you cannot have one without the other
- Person consists of two separate aspects that function as a whole
- All entities are composed of FORM and MATTER - physical substance and essence that allows you to identify as that object
- Aquinas
- Individual is comprised of body and soul - not two distinct elements
- Negates the Dualist view
- Descartes
- Adopts the Dualist view
- Body and soul are two wholly separate entities
- Shift in understanding = previously the soul had a spiritual element
- Descartes links with the idea that the soul is the rational component of the individual
- Identity is bound up with the ability to COGNATE
- CARTESIAN: 'I. I think therefore I am'
- Presents his ideas in 'The Passions of the Soul and Meditations'
- Adopts the Dualist view
- Gilbert Ryle
- Wrote 'The Concept of the Mind' (1949)
- Claims that Descartes represented "the ghost in the machine"
- EXAMPLE: pilot and the ship
- The body is reduced simply to a machine, with the mind as the true representation of self
- Depicting the human as a body with a controlling aspect - the mind somehow attached to it
- Claims that Descartes represented "the ghost in the machine"
- Argues that Descartes is guilty of a "category error"
- Assuming that the two terms mind and matter are of the same type
- Wrote 'The Concept of the Mind' (1949)
- Peter Geach
- "A man is a sort of body, not a body plus an immaterial somewhat, for a man is an animal, and an animal with one kind of living body; and thinking is a vital activity of man, not of any part of him, material or immaterial"
- Plato
- Hick
- Concepts of the Soul
- Plato
- Psuche - breath of life
- Embraces a dualistic understanding of the person
- Soul and body distinct entities
- Body connected to the illusory world of appearances - finite, mutable, corruptible, divisible
- Soul immaterial, perfect, immutable, indivisible, eternal, contains information on the Forms
- Soul and body distinct entities
- Aristotle
- Soul activating principle of life
- Dualist in that the body and soul are inextricably linked - you cannot have one without the other
- Person consists of two separate aspects that function as a whole
- All entities are composed of FORM and MATTER - physical substance and essence that allows you to identify as that object
- Aquinas
- Individual is comprised of body and soul - not two distinct elements
- Negates the Dualist view
- Descartes
- Adopts the Dualist view
- Body and soul are two wholly separate entities
- Shift in understanding = previously the soul had a spiritual element
- Descartes links with the idea that the soul is the rational component of the individual
- Identity is bound up with the ability to COGNATE
- CARTESIAN: 'I. I think therefore I am'
- Presents his ideas in 'The Passions of the Soul and Meditations'
- Adopts the Dualist view
- Gilbert Ryle
- Wrote 'The Concept of the Mind' (1949)
- Claims that Descartes represented "the ghost in the machine"
- EXAMPLE: pilot and the ship
- The body is reduced simply to a machine, with the mind as the true representation of self
- Depicting the human as a body with a controlling aspect - the mind somehow attached to it
- Claims that Descartes represented "the ghost in the machine"
- Argues that Descartes is guilty of a "category error"
- Assuming that the two terms mind and matter are of the same type
- Wrote 'The Concept of the Mind' (1949)
- Peter Geach
- "A man is a sort of body, not a body plus an immaterial somewhat, for a man is an animal, and an animal with one kind of living body; and thinking is a vital activity of man, not of any part of him, material or immaterial"
- Plato
- Opposes the Platonic view of the soul, particuarly the concepts of the soul being immortal
- He, like Aquinas, says: "my soul is not me"
- Not too different to Aristotle in terms of approach - a soft materialist
- Soft Materialism: we are our bodies, but those bodies have a spiritual dimension
- This view influences his views on the afterlife
- Soft Materialism: we are our bodies, but those bodies have a spiritual dimension
- He propounds the theory of the replica body: that when we die God creates a replica of ourselves in a resurrected world
- Concepts of the Soul
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