Q.2 exam paper June 2011 Philosophy 2. Evaluate the claim that the soul is distinct from the body. There are many different views that the soul is distinct from the body of which appose this claim but at the same time there are those who agree with it. A famous Greek Philosopher named Plato was a duellist who believed that the soul is indeed distinct from the body. Plato believed that the soul is more important than the body as the body is apart of the empirical world and like all objects
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on the Reality. The opposite is the Western ‘materialistic’ view which culminates in Marxism‚ and states that the empirical world is the only reality. Ramaswamy believes that there can be no compromise between these two opposite views. All other philosophies and ideologies are ‘poetic’‚ placed in-between these two mutually exclusive views. As a consequence‚ it is obvious that the main artistic problem of the novel lies in finding an adequate correlative in form to structure the interaction between
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Diachronic personal identity in philosophy refers to what makes a person the same person over time. Solving this question of diachronic personal identity is valuable because it gives conditions for what makes up a person’s identity across time. There are different theories to explain what makes a person at an earlier time the same person at a later time. Three of these theories are the soul theory‚ the body theory and the psychological continuity or memory theory. Each theory offers a unique perspective
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particular type does not depend on its internal constitution‚ but rather on the way it functions‚ or the role it plays‚ in the system of which it is a part” (Levine‚ 2013). ‚[note‚ for Stephen: I take this quotation from the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy‚ but I am not sure about how to put the referece‚ for example page number] But what
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2 paragraph (10 Sentences)!! 1. What is the mind/body problem? The mind-body problem clarifies how mental states‚ actions and beliefs‚ thinking connect to the physical states‚ events and processes. The human body is a physical object and the mind is non-physical. 2. Why is it a problem? The mind and body is not a problem; since the body and mind are not equal‚ and do not work together‚ you can become imbalanced. This is the cause of people to act mentally strange. 3. Do you think it can
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Introduction “The Turing Test” is most accurately used to refer to a pitch made by Turing (1950) as an approach of dealing with the question whether machines can think. According to Turing‚ the question whether machines can think is itself “too meaningless” to deserve any debate (442). In other words‚ the Turing Test is a method for determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human. The test is named after Alan Turing‚ an English mathematician who pioneered artificial intelligence
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philosopher and devout Catholic defended the position that the mental foundation can exist outside of the bodily foundation‚ and therefor the body cannot think. Descartes argued that the physical body and the mind are two independent entities that happen to coexist‚ as we know them. However‚ the mind is categorically capable of existing entirely unattached from the body. Substance dualism seems to hold the greatest compatibility with most theological beliefs of the immortal soul living in the mortal vessel
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Divisibility of the Mind In his sixth Meditation‚ Descartes makes an argument that the mind and body are not a single entity. Instead‚ he believes that there is a clear distinction between those two concepts‚ partly due to the unequal ability to divide each into more basic components. This leads Descartes to the conclusion that mind and body exist separately as two parts in a duality. Descartes describes how the mind is simply a thing that can think. There are no separate parts of the mind for different
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Rene Descartes’s said that bodies are not minds and minds are not bodies‚ more likely there is two different kind of contemporary bodies and minds. When defining the characteristics of mind it is cogitation and the bodies is a spatial extension. Rene Descartes argued that mind is a thinking but not extendable thing and body is extended non thinking thing. Body is a material entity we spend time decorating our appearances and the mind is the source where our creativeness is coming from. It also helps
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travel broaden the mind. ’Travel broadens the mind’ Travel does broaden the mind. However it is what ’travel’ means to the individual. Is it is the consequence of travel where the true expansion is achieved. Travel opens a doorway for the individual to seek the experiences and be open to the absorption of those experiences. Allowing to take from those to build on and develop. These journeys could be far afield or a walk to the corner shop- Muslims praying to the West or the tired eyes of the
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