PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: A Priori And A Posteriori, Empirical Evidence, Human Nature

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1A03
• Professor: Barry Allen

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Philos 1a03 - jan 26 - plato: phaedo & symposium. Arguments for survival of the soul after death: all things come into being from their opposite. To have come from the dead a soul must exist despite being dead. Pulling apart existence and being alive: souls exist even when they are dead, a) our understanding of perfection is independent of sense experience. A priori knowledge: validity independent of experience (ex: we can see something as equal because we have a priori knowledge of equality) A posterior knowledge: depends on experience: to have knowledge independently of experience, the soul must have been alive prior to bodily life. But will is survive the body"s death: yes, because a soul that exists before birth must come from something dead. So a soul is a soul regardless of association with a living body. We do not require a living body to be a living soul: against soul scattering.