The document discusses different perspectives on the human person as an embodied spirit from ancient and contemporary philosophers. It covers Plato's view of the soul as having three parts and being distinct from the body. It also discusses Augustine's view that humans are restless until finding rest in God, and that the soul animates the body. It then discusses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's view that the mind and body are inextricably united, and that we experience and learn through our bodies.

1. TheHumanPersonas
anEmbodiedSpirit:
Ancientand
ContemporaryThought

2. “TheChurchsays:TheBodyisa
sin.ScienceSays:Thebodyisa
machine.Advertisingsays:The
Bodyisabusiness.Thebodysays:
Iamafiesta”
EduardoGeleano

3. Attheendofthelesson,youare
expectedto:
discussthehumanpersonasan
embodiedspiritfromthepointsof
viewofselectedancientand
contemporaryphilosophers.

4. AncientGreekPhilosophy
PlatoandAristotle

5. AncientGreekPhilosophy
PlatoandAristotle
Plato (428-348B.C.)
-studentofSocrates
-InPlato’seye,manhasanimmortal
soulandamortalperishablebody.

6. THESOULTRIPARTITENATURE
1. Immortal rational part, which
existed before it became part
of body

7. THESOULTRIPARTITENATURE
2. A courageous or “spirited”
part.

8. THESOULTRIPARTITENATURE
3. An appetitive part

10. InBookIVofRepublic,The
soul,“isthegiveroflifetothe
body,thepermanent,
changelessanddivine
elementasopposedtothe
changing,transitoryand
perishablebody.

11. Thismakethehumanbeing
“asoulusingbody”
Thelifeofabeingfor Platois
acontinuousascenttowards
theworldofideas,ajourneyin
whichheshouldtryforfree.

12. Understanding Plato’s Tripartite Soul – How To Make Better Life Decisions –
Academy Of Eudaimonia (wordpress.com)

13. Giveameaningtothissentence:
(In50words)
“Amadmanseeswhathe
sees”

14. Review

15. 1. What is the tripartite soul?
A. Plato's prescription for education
B. Plato's definition of the human psyche in three parts
C. Plato's view on religion in three parts
D. The relationship among Plato, Socrates and Aristotle

16. 2. Plato lived during
A. 5th and 4th century BC
B. 4th and 3rd century BC
C. 3rd and 2nd century BC
D. 4th and 5th century AD

17. 3. Plato was a disciple of
A. Aristotle
B. Polybius
C. Cicero
D. Socrates

18. 4. Which one of the following is Plato’s
work?
A. The Lyceum
B. The Prince
C. The Republic
D. None of the above

19. 5. According to the Philosophy of Plato, the
fundamental character of Philosopher is
A. Wisdom
B. B. Courage
C. Appetite
D. None of the above

20. Medieval Christian Philosophy:
St. Augustine
-Lived from 354-430 AD
-Novelist Louis de Wohl portrayed the life of
St. Augustine in his book entitled “The
Restless Flame”.
-The Human person is a restless being.
-Described him as restless until he found rest
in God.

21. Medieval Christian Philosophy:
St. Augustine
-In his confession, he attributes this
restlessness with the distractions of the body’s
urges and appetites.
-The man consists of soul and body. “A soul in
possession of a body” which “does not
constitute two persons but one man.”

22. Medieval Christian Philosophy:
St. Augustine
-“The human soul is an immaterial principle”
which “animates the body”
-In the Confession, St. Augustine says that the
human person is created after the image and
likeness of God, and what makes him as much
is his power of reason and will.

23. Medieval Christian Philosophy:
St. Augustine
-Through man’s thinking and willing we get a
glimpse of who God is.

24. How do I understand myself
based on St Augustine’s
philosophies and confessions?

25. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Intelligent Body, The Embodied Mind

26. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Phenomenologist
- Articulated the meaning of this
inextricable union of mind and body.
- He pointed out that there is no
experience that is not an embodied
experience.

27. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- There is never a moment in which we
are separated from our bodies as if it is
clothing that we can shed off.
- Our bodies open our existence to the
world.
- Because of our bodies, we are in the
world.

28. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- There is never a moment in which we
are separated from our bodies as if it is
clothing that we can shed off.
- Our bodies open our existence to the
world.
- Because of our bodies, we are in the
world.

29. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- We grow and move about in the world is
such a way that our bodies learn to be
in harmony with it.
- He refers to this oneness or harmony
between the body and the world as our
“being-in-the-world”.
- The body has knowledge.

30. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- The body is not a mindless tool waiting
for the spirit to move it.
- The body learn things long before we
become conscious of what it learns.
- We can also learn even while we are
not conscious of it. We learn with our
bodies.

31. Write a tagalog sentence with an ending
“Pangatawanan mo!”