UTS Philo Perspective

It is the systematic study of ideas and issues, a reasoned pursuit of fundamental truths, a quest for a comprehensive understanding of the world, a study of principles of conduct, and much more.

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The soul is the giver of life to the body, the permanent, changeless and divine element as opposed to the changing, transitory and perishable body. This makes the self “a soul using the body.”

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He believed that the self exists in two parts, the physical, tangible, mortal & constantly changing, and the soul which is immortal.

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Human happiness comes from the harmonious development of the whole self.

Wisdom is true knowledge and virtue is doing what is best that leads to the attainment of perfection and happiness.

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The self is made up of a body and a soul, “a soul in possession of a body” which “does not constitute two persons but one man.”

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A human person can know the truth with the certainty by the use of his reason.

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The self is an immaterial mind and a material body.

The mind is the seat of consciousness.

The body, which includes the human senses, is unreliable and shouldn’t be trusted.

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At birth the human mind is tabula rasa (blank slate).

The mind is empty at birth.

He emphasized the “freedom of individuals to author their own soul.”

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A human person has an inner and outer self which form his consciousness.

The inner self consists of his psychological state and rational intellect.

The outer self is a human person’s senses and physical world.

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The self is an inextricable union between mind and body.

There is no experience that is not an embodied experience. The mind and the body are so intertwined that we cannot even distinguish where the work of the mind ends and where the work of the body begins.

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