TIME AND IMMORTALITY
The qualities of the Platonic soul
Project realised by: Caia Madalina, Chis Anda, Coroi Andreea, Horhogea Simona, Paul Ioana, Perijoc Oana.
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Will humans ever be immortal?���
If you are human, you are going to die. This isn't the most comforting thought, but death is the inevitable price we must pay for being alive. �
Humans are, however, getting better at pushing back our expiration date, as our medicines and technologies advance.
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PLATO
One of the most famous classical philosophers that studied this specific matter.
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Plato set forth ideas that stand as the foundation of:
Plato was first to advocate “immortality” of the human soul through his works Republic and Phaedrus.
The earliest forms of “mind-body dualism.”
Republic and Phaedrus.
the soul is without internal parts and hence immortal
In Phaedrus
the soul has a complex structure and conflicts between three parts
in Republic
Plato’s Tripartite Soul Theory
Plato’s Tripartite Soul Theory
symbolizes the mind and represents the ruling class, a rational mind thinks, analyzes, and gauges options for the best outcome of any given situation
symbolizes the heart and represents the military class. Courage is the highest virtue of the spirit, and it’s associated with bravery, honor, and overcoming great challenges.
symbolizes the stomach and represents the commoners, desire is ruled by sexual gratification, greed for money, comfort foods, and various other necessities that mostly take up an individual’s life.
The Rational
The Spirited
The Appetite
HUMAN SOUL
Plato's theory of soul
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Inspired by the teachings of Socrates, considered the psyche to be the essence of a person.
Plato considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of a person's being.
Even after death, the soul exists and is able to think.
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What is a soul?
Plato believes that the soul is what gives life to the body in terms of self-motion
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to be alive is to be capable of moving yourself; the soul is over a self-m
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soul, in religion and philosophy, the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being,
which confers individuality and humanity
The immortality of the soul���
The idea of the soul as a mental entity, with intellectual and moral qualities.
Within this framework, philosophical discussion has centred mainly on the idea of the immaterial soul and its capacity to survive the death of the body.
Mars is actually a cold place. It’s a planet full of iron oxide dust
It’s the smallest and closest planet to the Sun in the Solar System
REINCARNATION
Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
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Platonic arguments for the immortality of the soul���
“what we call learning is really just recollection. If that is true, then surely what we recollect now we must have learned at some time before; which is impossible unless our souls existed somewhere before they entered this human shape. So in that way too it seems likely that the soul is immortal.”
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“the living have come from the dead no less than the dead from the living. But I think we decided that if this was so, it was a sufficient proof that the souls of the dead must exist in some place from which they are reborn.”
1. The argument from generation out of opposites
2. The argument from recollection
3. The simplicity argument
�This argument is mostly based on the question: is the soul composite, or incomposite?´´�
COMPARISON
“A spiritual soul cannot be corrupted, since it possesses no matter; it cannot be disintegrated, since it has no substantial parts; it cannot lose its individual unity, since it is self-subsisting, nor its internal energy since it contains within itself all the sources of its energies”
Kant offered a different kind of argument for immortality—as a postulate of the moral life. The claim of the moral law demands that human beings become perfect.
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Jacques Maritain
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Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
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BIBLIOGRAPHY���
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