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Aristotle

Monist




(but had aspects of soft monism with intellectual thought being to survive)




Four Causes, soul=form/essence, Hierarchy of souls...
Plato

Dualist




Charioteer analogy, Soul=pre-exists, Realm of the forms.
Descartes

Dualist




empiricism is devious.

Dawkins

Monist




Soul=non-existent, belief in soul=anachronistic, The SELFISH gene.
Hick

Monist




Replica Theory, Bodily resurrection, Psycho Semantic Unity.

Ryle

Monist




Body and soul= same thing, Ghost and the machine, Philosophical behaviourism.