Understanding Anthropological Dualism: Mind and Body

Understanding Anthropological Dualism

3-Dualism Anthropological.

It consists of the separation of the human mind and body. The debate has been kept alive since ancient times until today, often referred to as the soul-body duality. Even Plato said that the body is the prison of the soul.

If we conform to peek at this issue only in its modern approach, we note that the conception of humanity becomes a major problem, especially with all those metaphysical conceptions that are based on a split reality into two radically different classes of substances:

The extent or physical substance, conceived from mathematics and entirely governed by the laws of mechanics.

The thought or psychic reality, conceived from logic and one which has no place in the book.

Descartes assumed that natural beings other than man are only body, physical extension. But man, for these thinkers, represents a particular difficulty because only he could find a strange mixture of two substances which, being entirely different and independent, can communicate. Nevertheless, it is obvious that certain physical stimuli produce mental representations and that certain mental representations seem to have a causal influence over body movements.

1-VOCABULARY

• Destination: Hidden plot, beyond the action and its contingent and unpredictable results, reserve each lot assigned to him from birth and leads fatally to his place seemingly random way or complex.
• Anthropocentric: Worldview from the perspective of man. This expression usually refers to the dominant view of modern thought, from the Renaissance, compared to theocentrism which dominated the Christian Middle Ages.
• Humanism: Philosophical position that defends the primacy of human dignity and human freedom as indispensable value and as a final perspective from which to observe the body of knowledge and action.

2-Explain-classical conception of an ethos.

A source of flowing action is called character. There is ethos, Aristotle said, whenever someone makes a decision or makes a choice, that is, whenever someone acts in this or that way. Thus, freedom plays a prominent role in defining what is human.

However, acting is not only choosing this option but also choosing the rule under which we operate. And that rule according to which we choose to express our character. Therefore, we say that there is no character or weak character who is constantly changing rules or carried away by events. What we look for in this rule is to make the best choice, excellence.