Mind Body and Soul
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- Mind Body and Soul
- Plato
- Dualist- body + soul seperate
- Analogy of the two horses and the charioteer. Charioteer (reason aka soul) controlling horses (emotion and appetite aka body)
- Soul previously existed in the world of the forms
- Evidence- opposites bc life comes from death and death from life. A priori knowledge from world of forms
- Descartes
- Substance Dualism- mental mind and body can be separated.
- Weakness- mental is physical- brain
- Mind is not extended in time and space, but the body is
- Indivisibility- mind is not divisable, body is bc extention
- Realms are physical and mental
- Weakness- pineal gland contains two realms, so disproves this
- Ryles challenge- distinction between body and mind is false, no mind/ghost in the body/machine. Person is bodymind not body and mind
- Substance Dualism- mental mind and body can be separated.
- Materialism
- Dawkins- all matter
- Rejects dualism- no empirical evidence
- Redductionist- everything can be reduced to physicality
- Conciousness is a mystery but future will tell
- Rejects soul one bc its a primitive superstition. Not two bc is can be proven through science and empirical evidence
- Grand Unified Theory- assumption that science will discover the answers to concoiusness eventually
- Weaknesses- relies too heavily on the fact that in the future theories will be proven
- Dawkins- all matter
- Rejects dualism- no empirical evidence
- Dawkins- all matter
- Weaknesses- relies too heavily on the fact that in the future theories will be proven
- Soft Materialism - Hick
- One being- bodies with spiritual dimension but not dualisstic
- Make up of humans is pyscho physical aka mind and DNA
- Souls refer to characteristics aka behavioural dispositions
- Dawkins- all matter
- Plato
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