Plato's Dualism
- Created by: Charlotte Emily Turner
- Created on: 28-06-17 12:03
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- Plato's Dualism
- Humans have composite natures
- Non-material part = mind/soul
- Allows us to gain opinions
- Material part = (physical) body
- Allows us to gain knowledge
- Non-material part = mind/soul
- The soul is immaterial, immortal & pre-existent
- The soul is more important than the body
- The spiritual world of forms is the highest level of reality
- The body is part of the empirical world (so is subject to change)
- Therefore, the body & its senses aren't a reliable guide to the truth
- Distract us from our true purpose
- The body is a prison, which the soul is 'liberated' from at death
- The soul is immortal & belongs to the real of forms (so is unchanging)
- All knowledge we have is from the realm of forms
- Humans have composite natures
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