Mind, Body, Soul. Flashcards
(19 cards)
According to Plato, our soul is ________.
Immortal.
According to Plato, Soul=____, Body = ___.
- Good
- Bad.
The vegetative soul
Shared with all things alive, including plants
The appetitive soul
Passions and appetites, shared with animals. Hunger, thirst, sexual impulse.
The intellectual soul
Rational and directive - thinks about things and controls the actions we take. Only humans have these.
Aquinas Q1
“Nothing bodily can be the first principle of life”
Dualism
The belief we have 2 elements - body and soul.
Monism
The belief that we are one system, not two.
Materialism
The belief that the only substance is the material one - a type of monism.
Substance dualism
Mind and body are two different subjects.
René Descartes’ most famous quote
Cogito Ergo Sum - I think, therefore I am.
G. Ryle thought Descartes was guilty of a c_______ e____
category error
John Hick on The Soul
That we are necessarily material beings does not mean that we are JUST material beings.
Reductionism
Everything can be reduced to statements about physical bodies.
Behaviourism
All mental states are learned behaviours of bodies.
R Dawkins’s Soul One
The separate substance of much traditional thought. Rejected.
R Dawkins Soul Two
Intellectual and spiritual power - higher development of the moral faculties, feeling and imagination.
Res Cognita
Thinking Mind
Res extensa
Physical Body