Soul, mind & body

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What was Plato ?
Substance dualism
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What are Plato's argument for the soul?
Cyclical nature of existence
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What did Aristotle believe about the soul & body?
Soul is the form of the body
Soul and body are inseparable
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What did Descartes say?
What was Descartes belief?
- I think, therefore I am
- Substance dualism
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Evaluate Descartes' theory
- fails to give a coherent account of how mind & body interact
- pineal gland
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Where did Plato argue the religious knowledge of the forms come from?
The Soul
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For Plato what was the real part of the person?
what was it seen as ?
The Soul
- seen as the guiding force
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What 3 elements were the soul made up of ?
Reason, emotion, appetite
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Describe how plato believed the body & soul were opposition:
Soul wants to gain real knowledge of the forms
- body interested in seen pleasure
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Weaknesses of Plato's view of the soul
- his theory of the forms is open to criticism- undermines the theory as the whole
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What is the soul, for Aristotle?
What does the soul give purpose
Soul is what gives life too, or animates the body
- makes a body work
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