THE HUMAN PERSON AS AN
man if he does not think!
EMBODIED SPIRIT
Aristotle and Plato's discourse about
the human person tackled the two
basic principles of the body and soul.
o MATTER
o FORM
René Descartes
 The father of modern
philosophy.
 According to Vinzons, this
famous philosopher “widens the
gap between body and the soul
even more" as he separates the
body from the soul which has
the faculty to think and therefore
cannot be doubted unlike the
body.
 According to him, brain itself
could also be doubted!
The way you doubt cannot be doubted.
Descartes wants us to realize that the
process of doubting is indubitable. This
process of doubting is a way of
thinking. Therefore, what makes man a
human person is his faculty of thinking
the only real and certain in this world is
the Thinking Thing, the way man
thinks! This constitutes man's
existence.
COGITO
 A strong statement created by
Descartes tells us that our
existence depends on how we
think.
 We can also say that man is not
 Use your brain everyday so that
you are worthy of your
existence.
 If man doesn't think, he ceases
to exist we may compare him to
a cadaver (Aristotle reference)
 The brain must control the
actions of man and with great
mind comes endless
possibilities.
ERGO
 Therefore, let us not waste our
time, do well at school!
 Therefore, let us feed our minds
through reading books.
 Therefore, converse with other
people, share
 knowledge and opinions, create
a healthy debate, join
discussion.
 Therefore, do not stop thinking
about yourself and your
 existence and how to develop
such happy life.
SUM
 I am a human person, I exist,
and I can change the
 world.
 I am a master of my soul, the
captain of my ship.
 I am the owner of my own mind
and whatever it is.
 that I think entails my very
essence and existence
 in this world.
 I am limitless; I am a channel of
endless possibilities!
COGITO ERGO SUM

 This is Descartes' famous line

literally translated as I think, “I AM NOT AN ATHENIAN OR A
therefore I am. This line sums GREEK BUT CITIZEN OF THE
up his idea of Dualism or the WORLD.”
Mind- Body Dualism principle.
-DIOGENES

Mind- Body Dualism

 principle is a view in the

philosophy of mind that mental
phenomena are non-physical.

René Descartes

 believed that all things around

us can be reducible. As per
reductionism, before we look
into a larger picture of beings,
we must take a look on its parts
and negate each one until we
are set to finalize the thought of
the being reducing them until
we get the very essence.
 As a result, in dualism, the mind
or the thinking thing is non-
physical and nonspatial-
substance. This indubitable
reality is our consciousness,
selfawareness, and the seat of
intelligence within the human
person.
 Still, it is always acknowledged
as dualism because without the
body, the thinking thing will
never process.
 Without a doubt, you have
written a lot of things your mind
can do. Your brain becomes the
center of processes the thing
that thinks whatever it is that the
body wants to do.