CROSS-EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

Since Plato said that even after death, the soul exists and is able to “think”, he also
believed that we came from another world a.k.a reincarnation, how do we say that this
is true? Does the knowledge we gain from the other world retain when we are born
in this world?

Since Plato believed that true justice was an excellent state of the soul itself, what
does ‘true justice’ implies to?

They said, “Haven't you realized that our soul is immortal and never destroyed?” -
How do we determine that the soul is immortal and never destroyed?
Logically speaking we have not proven anything regarding this. Although this is
not proven, it does not mean that it is not true also, it will be a Fallacy of
Ignorance. Do you agree that the basis of Plato’s Theory of Souls or Human
Nature is concrete? How? What is the basis of Plato's Theory of the Soul or
Human Nature? It seems that the basis is not concrete too.

Based on Phaedo, Socrates, Plato's teacher used examples of relationships that things
that have opposites come to be from their opposite. For example, hot came from being
cold and vice versa. Does that mean that the living came from the dead?

What do you think is the opposite of a Fool?

Wouldn’t it be like a Fool came from being a Genius or a Genius came from being a
Fool?

Why do you think did Socrates, Plato’s teacher, related relationships to the existence of
souls?

As Plato wrote in his Republic it is necessary to teach the masses ideas that are
false, called “essential truths,” in order to control them from acting improperly and to
weaken their worries, is it possible that the information that he had given to us that
the soul can live independently is an example of the so-called “essential truths” that
he created this argument so that the people will not worry after death? If no, [think of
any questions or proceed to any questions]

If yes, wouldn’t this defeat the purpose of our debate regarding human nature? It is
like an information without any reliability and research.
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Ending Questions

Best Questions or Winning Question if answered as planned:

1. Since Plato stated that the soul can be separated and can exist without the body,
do you think the Soul or the Spirit has a mass?

2. Do you think that the Soul has weight, what's your approximate weight of the soul?
3. Ooooh, that means the Soul can move through walls or bypass walls or have like
some sort of a superpower, am I correct?
4. Do you think that the Soul, as you guys answered yes that the Soul can move
through walls, be affected by gravity?

Pag no,
- Why do you think that a thing or an object that has mass, as you guys said,
can’t be affected by gravity?

I repeat, do you think that the Soul, as you guys answered yes that they can move
through walls, be affected by gravity?

Pag nagsagot sila ng Yes,

- Since Plato's idea of the Soul and the body in which the soul and the body can exist
or function independently, you guys answered "Yes", Logically speaking, anything
that has a mass is affected by gravity would get sucked up by our core right? Since
you guys answered yes again earlier that the soul can pass through anything and
has a weight, it would be sucked up by our gravity. Where do you think will the souls
go given that they are trapped by the gravitational pull of our Earth’s core? Now, the
reason is that I want to clarify where will the souls go, given that they have different
characteristics of a physical being, if they are locked up to the core’s gravitational
pull, what even is the use of this theory that the Soul can exist or live independently?
How can they even go to the world of forms or the intelligible world stated by Plato?

No more further questions, ty.

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Defending Aristotle:
Aristotle had an answer for everything. These ideas were based on observations and
conformed to his common sense.

In De Anima (On the Soul), Aristotle , rejected Plato’s notion that the soul is an
independent body. He contended that the soul is the life force that makes it possible for
something to live and think. It is “the cause or source of the living body.” It is “the
essential whatness of the body.” It is several items. In humans, the soul is comprised of five
parts or systems: the nutritive system, the appetitive (desires and passions), senses,
locomotion, and thinking. Since they are alive, plants and animals also have souls, but
not all five parts. Plants, according to Aristotle, only plants have the nutritive part of the
soul. Animals have four of the five and lack thinking.

Aristotle stated that the “mind” or “intellect” cannot be destroyed and it will continue
to exist after the body dies. Old people have difficulty thinking not because the mind has
deteriorated, but because the vehicle, the body, holding the mind has deteriorated. This is
similar to what happens when a person is drunk or sick; the body does not let the mind work.
He agreed that the intellect does survive the death of the body. However, it appears that he
felt that this surviving intellect knows nothing about its prior existence.
(Aristotle and the soul - BooksnThoughts.com)

(If they asked about why Aristotle called us an animal, rebut using Plato’s idea of
featherless Bipeds)
Aristotle held that the soul was that which enabled the materials constituting an individual
plant-based, or an animate, form of potential life to engage in the necessary activities to
those materials collectively functioning as an actual form of life.

Aristotle's three parts soul concept proposed that a nutritive soul was common to both
plant-based and animate forms of life enabling the intake and absorption of nutrients, growth
towards maturity, the generation of progeny and the engagement in behaviors promotive of
the survival of the growing, maturing, breeding life-form and its progeny.

Aristotle's three parts soul concept further proposed that a sensitive soul could exist in
animate forms of life allowing perceptions of the world. Whilst most animate forms of life
were held to be capable of experiencing appetites and desires and being sensitive to
pleasures and pain.

Aristotle made a distinction within animate forms of life. He saw what he termed passive
intellect as a rational soul capacity for the taking in and remembering of information and
what he termed active intellect as a rational soul capacity for actually holding beliefs or other
forms of conviction, thinking and philosophising.

Full rational soul capability was something Aristotle viewed as being confined to Human
Beings. The holding of beliefs and convictions, according to Aristotle, depended on
capacities for rationality which he deemed to be only present in Human souls and absent
from animal souls.