USELF (PHILOSPHERS)

JUST LIKE ST. AUGUSTINE, DESCARTES BELIEVED THAT THE SOUL IS A THINKING ENTITY.

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HUME CLAIMED THAT KNOWLEDGE CAN ONLY BE POSSIBLE IF IT IS SENSED AND EXPERIENCED.

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FOR DESCARTES, THE SELF IS ALSO A COMBINATION OF TWO DISTINCT ENTITIES, THE COGITO…WHICH IS THE MIND, AND THE EXTENZA…OR THE EXTENSION OF THE MIND.

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HUME BELIEVED THAT THE SELF IS AN ENTITY OVER AND BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY.

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ST. AQUINAS HELD THAT ‘INDEED, MAN IS COMPOSED OF TWO PARTS: MATTER and FORM.’ MATTER REFERS TO THE ‘ESSENCE OF A SUBSTANCE OR THING.’

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FOR AQUINAS, THERE IS NO WAY TO UNIFY FAITH AND REASON.

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FOR DESCARTES, TO DOUBT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT THE TRUTH ABOUT THINGS IS REVEALED.

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ST. AUGUSTINE ADOPTED SOCRATES’S VIEW THAT THE “SELF” IS AN IMMATERIAL BUT RATIONAL SOUL.

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Answer explanation

It was Plato not Socrates

FOR DESCARTES, “THE ONLY THING THAT ONE CANNOT DOUBT IS THE EXISTENCE OF THE SELF, FOR EVEN IF ONE DOUBTS ONESELF, THAT ONLY PROVES THAT THERE IS A DOUBTING SELF, A THING THAT THINKS AND THEREFORE, THAT CANNOT BE DOUBTED.”

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FOR ST. AUGUSTINE, BOTH BODY AND SOUL CAN THRIVE IN THE IMPERFECT, PHYSICAL REALITY THAT IS THE WORLD.

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