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Platonic-aristotelian Notion Of Man
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1.2.3 The Relationship between the Soul and the Body.
The
union of the soul and the body originates as a single being-man. For
Aristotle, being soul alone is not man, nor to be body alone but the
blend of these two elements. Other supporters of this opinion include;
Cajetan, Albert the great, Aquinas and Rosmini. For Hume, their
relationship is that of subjective and reflection.
Plato himself says
that the soul is identified with the true essence of man. Freeing the
soul is a necessary condition to eliminating the body. Other proponents
of this opinion include: Spinoza, Augustine, and Descartes etc.
Kant,
in his agnosticism rejected all attempts and regarded all soul-body
reports as nothing but fallacious. At this point, we say that the
soul-body relationship is substantial because the body and the soul
cannot operate in isolation. The soul and the body is not a substance
because neither the soul nor the body has atoms of autonomous existence
or self-initiation. Both of them participate together at the moment of
generation. Therefore cannot be identified as a simple accident or a
complete substance.
1.3 The Origin of Man
The search for the
origin of man dates back to at least the written history of man. This
gave rise to some evolutionary theories under Psychological cum
biological, scientific, theological, and philosophic thought.
1.3.1 Psychological Cum Biological Thought
In
this approach, man (Homo erectus, Homo vivens, Homosapiens, Homo volens
etc) is regarded as a unique composite of man and spirit, of body and
soul.
For Traducianism, the parents generated both body and soul
through the instrumental fission of the ovum and sperm alone. According
to it, man originated from a complex structure of molecules called DNA
(Deoxyribonucleic acid).
On another note, the soul of man has a
proximate spiritual source, the soul of the offspring, must be the soul,
which must be an emanation of the souls of the parents.
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