soul, mind and body
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- soul, mind & body
- Plato
- soul is in the WoF before and after living in body
- (substance) dualism!!
- soul is immaterial
- tripartite theory of the soul
- reason controls emotion and appetite
- myth of er
- soldier died, found 12 days later, came back to life and tells about afterlife - rewards/ punishments
- very different to christian view
- arguments for soul
- argument from opposites - everything exists from its opposite
- fallacy of equivocation
- argument from recollection
- 'Meno' recollection of WoF
- assumption of existence after death
- 'Meno' recollection of WoF
- argument from affinity
- soul = constant, body = mortal
- plato believed in fixed number of souls
- soul = constant, body = mortal
- argument from opposites - everything exists from its opposite
- phaedo
- Aristotle
- monism!
- soul animates body and dies together
- "life force"
- hylomorphic = body and soul unity
- inseparable
- soul animates body and dies together
- no afterlife
- wondered if reason could survive death
- types of soul
- nutritive (vegetative)
- all living things - grow / reproduce
- sensitive (appetite) souls
- animals and humans - ability to perceive the world
- rational souls
- humans - think and make moral judgements
- nutritive (vegetative)
- de anima
- monism!
- Descartes
- (substance) dualism!!
- hyperbolic doubt
- didn't trust senses
- can only be certain of existence as a thinker - mind
- Ryle
- The Concept of Mind (1949)
- criticised descartes
- category error - use of language
- army division
- university
- team spirit
- "ghost in the machine"
- category error - use of language
- Dennett
- at some point, psychologists will be able to detect where and how thinking happens
- no single place in the brain where consciousness is locates
- materialist
- identity theory
- materialism
- nothing survives death
- thinking / choices / descions are activities of the brain
- brain is an organ that is affected by psychological effects of substances
- Dawkins
- soul one: distinctive, supernatural part of a person which is capable of surviving death and knowing god
- not Dawkins view!!!!!!!!
- soul two: personality and individuality, no afterlife or divine element
- Dawkins's view - like Aristotle
- The Selfish Gene (1976)
- humans are like "survival machines", only interested in reproduction
- River Out of Eden (1995)
- "life is just bytes and bytes of digital information"
- soul one: distinctive, supernatural part of a person which is capable of surviving death and knowing god
- Plato
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