philosophy

• Embody - Body, soul, and spirit
• Embodiment - central concept of discussing the human nature of the human soul
• embodied cognitions - definition of psychologists on mans embodiment
• soul - driving force of the body
• spirit - connects us with god
• christian doctrine - states that the spirit is created by god, spirit is embodied in the human being
• contingency - dependent on the creator
• Plato - believed that the human spirit is composed of three parts: the rational soul, the appetitive soul, and the spirited soul
• logos = reason

  thymos = spirit

  epithymia = appetite
• triparte soul - rational, spirited, appetitive
• rational - seeks truth and is swayed by facts and arguments
• spirited - how feelings fuel our actions
• appetitive - desires, drives you to eat, have sex, our instincts
• Aristotle - rejected platos explanation
• Aristotle - believed that the soul is not dependent on the human body
• aristotle - believed that the human being is composed of matter and form
• matter - refers to the components that make up an object ( what it is externally; appearance)
• Form - the structure and arrangement of matter that gives rise to the object
• Form - refers to the metaphysical aspect of a being
• According to aristotle the soul is composed of three parts - Rational Soul, Brute soul, vegetative soul
• rational soul - reason;reflect;think
• brute soul - instinctive nature; survival
• Vegetative Soul - responsible for growth, reproduction, nutrition, sleep, digestion, etc.
• St. thomas aquinas - soul comes first before the body
• st. thomas aquinas - soul is the first actuality of the body
• st. augustine - soul is the driving force of the body and defines a human person
• make - make something out of another object
• create - make something out of nothing
• ex nihilo - from out of nothing
• death - end of a long beginning of human life
• death - state where humanity has no certain answer what it would be after losing our physical and material reality
• death - it is the beginning of the cycle of life
• Mercury - he is the messenger of god, his staff is used as a symbol for medicine
• God - a supreme being that governs all existence
• god - ceneter of faith and devotion of a religion
• omnipotence - god is all powerful
• omniscient - god is all knowing
• omnipresent - god is ever-present
• benevolent - god is perfectly good, just & all-loving
• eternal - god is timeless; has no beginning or end