Plato claimed that reason, used in a systematic way, is the best way to live our lives. That we should replace our irrational, mythological and paranormal thinking with rational, philosophical and naturalistic thinking. Plato was a dualist which means he believed that there are two aspects to human beings, an empirical body and a soul which is not of the empirical world; this belief is the core of his theory about body and soul. Plato believed that our body, being empirical, used senses to gain knowledge which he saw as an unreliable guide to the truth. Because our body is driven and focussed more around pleasures, such as eating and sleeping, this gets in the way of philosophical and intellectual pursuits. He saw that our souls or ‘psyche’
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They believe that humans are made from one thing, the physical body and completely reject the idea of life after death, they see that there is no scientific evidence for the ‘soul’ therefore only believing in matter and that there is no such thing as the world of the forms or in Plato’s theory of body and soul. Materialists believe that all our knowledge, experiences, emotions and thoughts derive from our brains and that’s all, unlike Dualist’s and Plato who see it as our ‘previous’ experiences from the world of the forms. Materialists don’t accept survival as, to summarise, they see that life only depends on a functioning brain, nervous system and physical body and death physically involves the destruction of the brain, the nervous system and physical body, therefore a person’s life ends at …show more content…
He saw the body as empirical but not conscious and the soul or mind as not empirical but conscious. He believed that although the mind and body were separate from each other they were still connected through their interactions with the brain therefore both affecting each other. Unlike Gilbert Ryle and another Materialist’s who believe there is nothing after death, Descartes believed that when people die their empirical body is left behind but their soul or mind with continue to God. However, Ryle dismissed this idea as simply theory about ‘a ghost {the mind} in a machine
They believe that humans are made from one thing, the physical body and completely reject the idea of life after death, they see that there is no scientific evidence for the ‘soul’ therefore only believing in matter and that there is no such thing as the world of the forms or in Plato’s theory of body and soul. Materialists believe that all our knowledge, experiences, emotions and thoughts derive from our brains and that’s all, unlike Dualist’s and Plato who see it as our ‘previous’ experiences from the world of the forms. Materialists don’t accept survival as, to summarise, they see that life only depends on a functioning brain, nervous system and physical body and death physically involves the destruction of the brain, the nervous system and physical body, therefore a person’s life ends at …show more content…
He saw the body as empirical but not conscious and the soul or mind as not empirical but conscious. He believed that although the mind and body were separate from each other they were still connected through their interactions with the brain therefore both affecting each other. Unlike Gilbert Ryle and another Materialist’s who believe there is nothing after death, Descartes believed that when people die their empirical body is left behind but their soul or mind with continue to God. However, Ryle dismissed this idea as simply theory about ‘a ghost {the mind} in a machine