Plato - body and soul
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- Created on: 18-11-12 16:31
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- Plato - body and soul
- summary
- Dualist view - body and soul are separate
- Soul is set free after death
- Goal of the soul is the world of the forms
- Real knowledge of the forms comes from the soul
- We recall information about the forms that we had before the soul was in the body
- Body is a source to endless trouble
- Argument from opposites - everything has an opposite
- Life - death
- Dualist view - body and soul are separate
- Strengths
- GIves an answer to what happens after death
- gives meaning to the soul
- GIves an answer to what happens after death
- Weaknesses
- Peter Geach - how can the soul see the forms?
- seeing requires a body
- learning is not an act of remembering
- argument of opposites - not everything has an opposite
- relies on existence of the forms
- many challenges to forms
- Peter Geach - how can the soul see the forms?
- summary
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