Plato on the soul
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- Created on: 08-02-17 19:02
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- Plato on the Soul
- Soul and Body are SEPARATE entities
- Body is temporary, physical, material aspect
- not immortal
- Soul is the essential immaterial aspect.
- immortal
- Dualist View
- Body is temporary, physical, material aspect
- Soul is temporarily united with a physical body
- But can move on at anytime
- Soul is immortal
- Soul is released from the body and is able to renew the contemplation of the form of the good
- Every quality comes into being from its own opposite or depends on its opposite to exist at all
- Things are hot because there are colder things
- Things are bright because there are dimmer things
- Life comes from death, death comes form life
- endless chain
- Birth
- death
- rebirth
- death
- Birth
- endless chain
- Meno worked out a puzzle without any education
- has knowledge from before birth
- Souls have once lived in the world of perfect forms
- has knowledge from before birth
- Tripartite view
- Reason
- Emotion
- Basic needs which motivate us and are controlled by reason
- Appetite
- Basic needs which motivate us and are controlled by reason
- Appetite
- Holds the reigns to make sure appetite and emotion work together in a rational direction
- Emotion
- The soul consists of these elements
- Reason
- Soul and Body are SEPARATE entities
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