PHL01 - C03 Reviewer

• Body and soul of a human person are inseparably united. It means that a human person is composed of both a material and a spiritual entity.

• Viewing the human person as an embodied spirit allows us to understand better not only ourselves as unique beings, but also our potentials and limitations as both body and soul.

• True

• False

Plato's belief on human as an embodied spirit:

• Body and soul are separable

• Human person is just a soul imprisoned in a body

• When a body dies, the soul goes back to the "world of forms"

• Human person's body and soul are inseparable

• The soul is the principle of life

Aristotle's belief on human as an embodied spirit:

• Body and soul are separable

• Human person is just a soul imprisoned in a body

• When a body dies, the soul goes back to the "world of forms"

• Human person's body and soul are inseparable

• The soul is the principle of life

Whose Theory is this?

• Aristotle’s Theory on the Human Soul

• Plato’s Theory on the Human Soul

In philosophy, the adjective transcendental and the noun transcendence convey the basic ground concept from the word’s literal meaning (from Latin), of ___________ with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages.

• climbing or going beyond

• climbing

• going beyond

• going

It refers to the idea of existence or reality that goes beyond or surpasses the physical or material realm. It involves surpassing ordinary limitations, boundaries, or constraints, whether they are physical, temporal, or conceptual

Transcendence often implies a movement beyond the immediate, empirical, or observable aspects of reality toward something higher, more ultimate, or more profound.

• True

• False

Though there are many aspect of transcendence, let us understand how they were explained based on three main spiritual philosophies namely...

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Taoism

Hinduism:

• Reincarnation and Karma

• Nirvana

• Will and Love