what does Plato's charioteer analogy include and represent?
includes the charioteer (mind/thymos), white horse (soul/thymos), black horse (body/pathos) and represents the tripartite soul
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what is Plato's argument from knowledge?
our soul must have seen equals in the world of the forms for us to recognize them, learning is a matter of remembering
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what is Plato's argument from opposites?
everything has an opposite, life must have an opposite, every opposite is a thing and can't be nothing, the opposite of life can't be nothing, if death isn't nothing it must be something
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what does the Myth of Er entail?
a man dies in a battlefield and returns to life 10 days later, he says what he saw in the afterlife, our souls are eternal and everlasting, every bad thing we do in life we must suffer 10 times over in the afterlife
what are the three analogies Aristotle uses to represent the soul?
the knife analogy, the oarsman analogy, the wax stamp analogy
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what does Descartes' substance dualism say?
senses are unreliable and cannot be trusted, we must doubt everything to understand, thought is the only thing that cannot be doubted, hyperbolic doubt is having the tendency to doubt and rejecting anything if there was doubt of their certain truth
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what does Boring materialism say?
mind is not distinctive from the brain, mental states are chemical reactions, no life after death because there is no way the consciousness to leave the physical body
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what does Dawkins' evolutionary biology say?
there is no such thing as a soul, the only way to survive is through memes and genes
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what is Plato's argument from knowledge?
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our soul must have seen equals in the world of the forms for us to recognize them, learning is a matter of remembering
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