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Intro To Philo Orig
Intro To Philo Orig
AS ORIENTED
TOWARDS THEIR
IMPENDING DEATH
The human person is an
embodied spirit or the
unity of a body and a
spirit. The body grows
and dies, while the soul
continues to exist even
after the body has passed.
This makes a person's life
limited in time but no one
really knows when life
will end.
BEING AND DEATH
INEVITABLE THINGS OR
EVENTS IN HUMAN LIFE
REALITY OF DEATH
BEING AND
DEATH
WHAT IS BEING?
WHAT IS BEING?
•A being is any living creature,
from a person to a bug. Being
also refers to the state of
existing. "To be, or not to be" --
that is the question when we
are talking about being. Things
that exist are in a state of being:
this meaning of being is a little
vague, but it has to do with the
way things are alive and real.
• As a treatment of the meaning of human
nature, the course considers the human
person as physical being, as knower, as
responsible agent, as a person in relation
to other persons, to society, to God, and to
the end, or purpose, of human life.
• These define two types of being, the in-itself
and the for-itself. To bring out that which
keeps them apart, involves understanding the
phenomenology of nothingness. This reveals
consciousness as essentially
characterizable though its power of negation,
a power which plays a key role in our
existential condition.
• Beingfor-itself (pour-soi) is the mode of
existence of consciousness, consisting in
its own activity and purposive nature.
• Being for-itself (pour-soi) is the mode of
existence of consciousness, consisting in
its own activity and purposive nature.
• Being in-itself (en-soi) is the self-
sufficient, lumpy, contingent being of
ordinary things.
WHAT IS DEATH?
WHAT IS DEATH?
•Traditional
Definition of death
is simply equated to
the stopping of
heartbeat and
breathing.
WHAT IS DEATH?
•Legal definition of death is
the irreversible cessation of
circulatory and respiratory
functions or the irreversible
cessation of all functions of
the entire brain, including
the brain stem.
WHAT IS DEATH IN
PHILOSOPHY?
• Typically, philosophers interpret this question as a
call for an analysis or definition of the concept of
death. Plato, for example, proposed to define death
as the separation of soul from the body.
However, this definition is not acceptable to those
who think that there are no souls.
P L AT O V I E W O N D E AT H