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Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 22mins
was the first philosopher who ever engaged in a systematic questioning about the self; the true task of the philosopher is to know oneself.
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every man is composed of body and soul; all individuals have an imperfect, impermanent aspect to him, and the body, while maintaining that there is also a soul that is perfect and permanent
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supported the idea that man is a dual nature of body and soul.
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there are three components of the soul: the rational soul, the spirited soul, and the appetitive soul.
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agreed that man is of a bifurcated nature; the body is bound to die on earth and the soul is to anticipate living eternally in a realm of spiritual bliss in communion with God
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The body can only thrive in the imperfect, physical reality that is the world, whereas the
soul can also stay after death in an eternal realm with the all-transcendent God
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said that indeed, man is composed of two parts: matter and form. Matter, or hyle in Greek, refers to the "common stuff that makes up everything in the universe." Man's body is part of this matter. Form, on the other hand, or morphe in Greek refers to the "essence of a substance or thing
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the soul is what animates the body, it is what makes us humans.
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Conceived of the human person as having a body and a mind
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The body is nothing else but a machine that is attached to the mind. The human person has it but it is not what makes man a man. If at all, that is the mind.
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The self is not an entity over and beyond the physical body
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Men can only attain knowledge by experiencing.
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Self, according to Hume, is simply "a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."
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Things that men perceive around them are not just randomly infused into the human person without an organizing principle that regulates the relationship of all these impressions.
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There is necessarily a mind that organizes the impressions that men get from the external world
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Time and space are ideas that one cannot find in the world, but is built in our minds; he calls these the apparatuses of the mind.
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The self is not just what gives one his personality; it is also the seat of knowledge acquisition for all human persons.
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Blatantly denying the concept of an internal, non-physical self; what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-to-day life.
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"Self" is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that people use to refer to all the behaviors that people make.
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The mind and body are so intertwined that they cannot be separated from one another.
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One cannot find any experience that is not an embodied experience. All experience is embodied; one's body is his opening toward his existence to the world.
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The living body, his thoughts, emotions, and experiences are all one.
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