There are two parts of every person, the part that you can see, the parts of themselves that they let out for the outside world and the part you cannot see, the things people keep to themselves. This sets up the two parts of human beings the body, which is physical, the thing that we can see and what ties us to the world around us and the mind, which we can not see, and is intangible. When it comes to our perceptions of other human beings we know they have bodies too, but we have no real way of knowing whether or not they really possess a mind. There is a disconnect between people and their mind and other people and their mind because their two minds cannot interact, they can only interact between the physical, what comes out of the mind and
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The idea of mind-body dualism is that the mind and body exist as two distinct entities. Both the mind and the body exist as two different parts of our being, I believe that the relation between mind and body go beyond just the two being connected in our physical plain. It important because how our minds and bodies interact determine how we as humans interact with the world around us. It could be believed that “the body seems to have been regarded always with suspicion as the state of unruly passions and appetites that might disrupt the pursuit of truth and knowledge.” (Price) and I can agree that the natural needs that our bodies require, such as eating, but from my point of view our body is what creates the truth or at least what we see as the truth. Without our senses there is no way we can gain knowledge. The mind and the body exist as two parts of the same whole that exist in harmony to create the combined essence of our complete being. For this essay I will take some objections and respond to them with how I feel and use other sources that I agree with to back up my claims and comment on them as …show more content…
John F. Miller talks about the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson who claims to have empirical evidence for reincarnation. Miller uses Plato to describe how the mind and body “Interpenetrates... much as liquid can interpenetrate a solid, or a gas can interpenetrate a liquid.” (Miller 66) In addition, Physicalists reduced the mind to what the brain does, thus as the thing that thinks, feels and decides. They use the so-called mind-body or mind brain problem, which is in reality the soul-body problem.” (Joubert 122) This statement blows the whole debate wide open. Joubert uses modern knowledge of the brain and its functions of thoughts and emotions to make a perception “the mind” into the brain which is part of the body and changes the idea of the mind into the soul. However, this does not align with Cartesian dualism because the idea of “I think therefore I am” would not be able to prove to Descartes that he exists because the Jouberts idea of thought would have to come from the brain which is a part of the body. Descartes ask, “Am I not so bound up with a body and with senses that I cannot exist without them?” (Pojman 491-492) the idea of the soul being the answer to his question
The idea of mind-body dualism is that the mind and body exist as two distinct entities. Both the mind and the body exist as two different parts of our being, I believe that the relation between mind and body go beyond just the two being connected in our physical plain. It important because how our minds and bodies interact determine how we as humans interact with the world around us. It could be believed that “the body seems to have been regarded always with suspicion as the state of unruly passions and appetites that might disrupt the pursuit of truth and knowledge.” (Price) and I can agree that the natural needs that our bodies require, such as eating, but from my point of view our body is what creates the truth or at least what we see as the truth. Without our senses there is no way we can gain knowledge. The mind and the body exist as two parts of the same whole that exist in harmony to create the combined essence of our complete being. For this essay I will take some objections and respond to them with how I feel and use other sources that I agree with to back up my claims and comment on them as …show more content…
John F. Miller talks about the work of Dr. Ian Stevenson who claims to have empirical evidence for reincarnation. Miller uses Plato to describe how the mind and body “Interpenetrates... much as liquid can interpenetrate a solid, or a gas can interpenetrate a liquid.” (Miller 66) In addition, Physicalists reduced the mind to what the brain does, thus as the thing that thinks, feels and decides. They use the so-called mind-body or mind brain problem, which is in reality the soul-body problem.” (Joubert 122) This statement blows the whole debate wide open. Joubert uses modern knowledge of the brain and its functions of thoughts and emotions to make a perception “the mind” into the brain which is part of the body and changes the idea of the mind into the soul. However, this does not align with Cartesian dualism because the idea of “I think therefore I am” would not be able to prove to Descartes that he exists because the Jouberts idea of thought would have to come from the brain which is a part of the body. Descartes ask, “Am I not so bound up with a body and with senses that I cannot exist without them?” (Pojman 491-492) the idea of the soul being the answer to his question