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My Relationship to My Body - Coggle Diagram
My Relationship to My Body
Substance - is the unchanging essence of a thing, which exists by itself and has attributes and modes that may change.
Causal interaction - is a form of communication driven by causation
Causality - is the law that states that each cause has a specific effect and that this effect is
dependent on the initial identities of the agents involved
Object - is a thing, an entity, or a being that can have properties and bear relations to other
purposes.
Lucretius: “Our body is the envelope of the soul, which, in turn, is the guardian and protector.”
Phenomenon - is a thing as it appears to be, as constructed by the mind and perceived by the
senses.
Aristotle - since the intellect can receive and reflect on all forms of data, then it must not be a physical organ, and so must be immaterial.
A particular is an individual concrete object which cannot be copied without introducing new
distinct particulars
The Body - as any material object is with our perception
The human body, called body-subject
because it is related to subjectivity.
Plato: “The soul never reasons better than when it as completely isolated itself by sending
the body walk.”
Descartes: “The word body is very equivocal."
Descartes: "When we speak of a body in general, we mean a specific part of the material and set the amount in which the universe is composed."
Descartes: "when we speak of the body of a man or woman, we hear any matter which is united with the soul of man” (Passions of the Soul).
Spinoza: “I mean a mode that the body expresses the essence of God as it is regarded as something heard, in a certain and determined.”
Dualism (Having Bodies)
In Philosophy of Mind, dualism is the position that mind and body are in some definite way separate from each other. That mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.
Plato - first formulated his famous Theory of Forms, distinct and immaterial substances of
which the objects and other phenomena that we perceive in the world are nothing more than
mere shadows.
Plato - He argued that for the intellect to have access to these universal concepts or
ideas, the mind must itself be a non-physical, immaterial entity.
Neo-Platonic Christians identified Plato’s Forms with souls. They believed that the soul was
the substance of each human being, while the body was just a shadow or copy of these
eternal phenomena.
Descartes - was the first to develop the mind-body problem
Monism (Being Bodies)
Monism - is the metaphysical and theological view that all is one, that there are no fundamental divisions, and that a unified set of laws underlie all of nature.
Leibniz: “Each organic body of living is a kind of divine machine, or natural automaton, which
infinitely surpasses all artificial automata” (Monadology).
Monism - denies such a
distinction or merges both in a higher unity.
The term “monism” itself is relatively recent, first used by the 18th-century German philosopher, Christian von Wolff to designate types of philosophical thought in which the attempt was made to eliminate the dichotomy of body and mind..