Lesson 6: The

Human Person As
Embodied Spirit
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 What is a human
Person? 01
We will talk
about this first.
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 Is something within and cannot be
physically seen is it what makes up
as the essential features of the
human person.

The physical Self

Cognitive self

Is something can be seen in

a person’s physical
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appearance.
 Body
Mind

Soul
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 SOUL = Is the intellect and moral
personality of humans

Is the essence of human person

and the responsible agent in
knowing and acting rightly or
Socrates wrongly.

Inseparable to the body

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 SOUL= 3 levels: rational,
Plato spiritual & appetitive

Appetitive – drives the human person to

experience: thirst, hunger & other physical
wants

Spiritual – drives to experience abomination,

anger & other emotional feelings

Rational – enables human to think, reflect,

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analyze, comprehend, draw conclusions, the

like
 BODY + SOUL= Separable
Plato Soul is using a body because the
Dependent to theIndependent to
soul the body souls already exist prior to the
body
Body – Material, Destructible & Dispensable

Soul – immutable, indestructible &

indispensable

World of Forms
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 Activity 1: Explain and Elaborate

If we will apply Plato’s idea of Soul

that is separable of the body and it is
not dependent of the body, then can
the soul transfers to any bodies or to
other person’s body?
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 SOUL= 3 levels: vegetative,
Aristotle sensitive & rational

Vegetative – possess 3 basic requirements:

reproduce, grow & feed. No feelings &
thinking
Sensitive – can reproduce, grow & feed itself
and have feelings. No thinking

Rational – can reproduce, grow & feed itself

and have feelings & thinking.
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 Body + SOUL= inseparable
Aristotle

Body is the Soul is the

matter to the form to the
soul body
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 St. Augustine

Body & Soul = Inseparable

Soul is being united Human is created

to the body to make according to God’s
it entire and likeness and image.
complete
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 John Locke
The human mind at birth is
a blank slate

Human Person is
constructed primarily by the
sense experience.
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 Self is simply a bundle or collection of David
different perceptions, which succeed each
other with an inconceivable rapidly and in a Hume
perpetual flux & movement.

The idea of personal identity is a result of

imagination

There is no self
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 Self is not just what gives one his personality David
but also the seat of knowledge acquisition for
all human beings Hume

The self constructs its own reality creating

a world that is familiar and predictable
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Through our rationality, the self transcends

sense experience
 Self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but Girlbert
simply the convenient name that people use to refer
to all the behaviors that people make Ryle

I act therefore I am, it means the self is the

same as bodily behavior

The self is the way people behave

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 The self is inseparable from the brain
and the physiology of the body. All we
Paul
have is the brain and so, if the brain is ChurchLand
gone there is no self. The physical
brain and not the imaginary mind,
gives us our sense of self.

The mind does not really exist. The self

is the brain
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 Activity 2:

Can do Cannot do
Give at least 10
things/experience/situations
that we can do and 10
things/experience/situations
that we cannot do.
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