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Plato on soul

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Eternal essence of a person, survives independently

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Plato on body

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A shell, controlled by the soul and can only learn through sense experience

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Body and soul

3 instincts the soul guides

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Reason
Appetite
Emotion

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Aristotle on soul

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Inseparable from body, the psyche the part the remains the same, gives us our formal cause

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Aristotle on body

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Constantly changing

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Plant souls

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Nutritive souls, seek nourishment and reproduction

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Animal souls

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Distinguish pleasure and pain, can react to stimuli

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Human souls

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Can tell right form wrong

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Body and soul

Descartes

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Lived in hyperbolic doubt- questioned everything even his reason

“I think therefore I am”
Our mind defines us, we can’t imagine ourselves without one but can imagine not having body

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Body and soul

Descartes pineal gland

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“Principle seat of the soul”

Full of soul, spirit like animals controls memory, movement and senses

11
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Body and soul

Gilbert Ryle

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Our talk of a self beyond the physical is a language error eg) team spirit

Category mistake

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Body and soul

Richard Dawkins

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“Humans are survival machines”

We are only physical and instinctive

Rejects soul one, create soul 2: personality and individuality