Philosophy Quiz: The Examined Life
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An unexamined life is not worth living

SOCRATES

The physical realm is changeable, transient, and imperfect. The body belongs to the physical realm. •The ideal realm is unchanging, eternal, and immortal. The soul belongs to the ideal realm.

DICHOTOMOUS REALMS

•Almost same as Socrates with some add-ons •The self consists of three parts: reason, spirit or passion, and physical appetite.

PLATO

_ is the divine essence that gives us the capacity for in-depth thought, rational choice-making, and real comprehension of eternal truths.

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The _ includes basic emotions such as love, anger, ambition, aggressiveness, and empathy.

<p>spirit or passion</p> Signup and view all the answers

The _ includes or basic biological needs such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desires.

<p>physical appetite</p> Signup and view all the answers

For _, the body and soul are not two separate elements but are not one thing. •The soul is simply the Form of the body and is not capable of existing without the body. •The soul is that which makes a person a person. The soul is the essence of the self. •Without the body the soul cannot exist. The soul dies along with the body.

<p>Aristotle</p> Signup and view all the answers

Aristotle suggested that anything with life has a soul. •Three kinds of soul: •_ - the physical body; allow things to grow •- sensual desires, feelings, and emotions •_ - what makes us human; includes intellect that makes man know and understand things

<p>Vegetative, Sentient, and Rational</p> Signup and view all the answers

_ believed that God is transcendent and everything created by God, who is all good, is good.

<p>Augustine</p> Signup and view all the answers

I think, therefore, I am

<p>RENE DESCARTES</p> Signup and view all the answers

Therer are two dimensions of the self: the self as a thinking entity and the self as a physical body •_ (or soul) is the nonmeterial, immortal, conscious being, and independent of the physical laws of the universe. •_ is the material, mortal, non-thinking entity, fully governed by the physical laws of nature.

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