lunes, 25 de enero de 2010

is the soul a product of the body functions?


Is the soul a product of the body functions? well for aristotle and most of the people it isn't because the soul is like the most important part of human beings, to explain this we can say that the suol is the one that tell's the body how to act or in other words how to express your feelings and emotions like anger sadness etc. For aristotle the soul is natural body that only can act with the help of the body but also the soul can life without the body but it can't express.another point of view is the one from plato that is similar to the thaught of aristotle, he said that the soul is something immaterial independent of the body and capable of surviving it's death, so for aristotle and plato the soul is not a product of the body functions it is the opposite the body functions are the product of the soul. In conclution the soul and the body complement each other.
Well now days we can't say that the soul is what we are because it's became something that is related to religion and god so the people has change it terms or meaning so they can reach the thing that the church say and what god neads. For me our soul is the thing that makes us alive and it represent what we are throught our body. Our soul is something that we can't see but we can feel inside us and it think feels for us, so we can say that we need a body and a soul so we can be a complete and funtional human being.

jueves, 7 de enero de 2010

Plato


When socrates died he had a lot of disipults, one of them was Plato. Plato explain in his writings the significance of Socrates philosophies. Plato also questioned the dinamics of reality and this is the fact that makes him so controvertial today.
I think that plato´s thaughts are still mentioned because he speaks about the reality of the world and all the lies and truths about it.
On another point of veiw I think that what plato said is very interesting and also confusing because he thaught that an idea is the perfect essence of a thing so in other words he said that everything that is real is also truth and beauty.
Plato was the first rationalist, this means that the only thing that mattered for him was reason. This is very good because he always wanted everything to have an explenation or know what is true or false.
For example art was about recreating nature so it is a doble fallacy because you are recreating something that is not truth.
In conclution for me plato was a person that wanted to know a lot about the world, the mind and the reality therfor he created a world that is called the hyperurano ( the world of ideas) in other words the truth that is reflected in our world.