PSYC18H3 Lecture : LEC2_C18.docx
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Soul [reasoning > passion and appetite: reason (head) - immortal, cognitive/thinking portion separate from body, passion (chest) motivating, willful action of courage and honor. Dies with body: appetite (belly) mortal affection + central desires (sensation) Theory of forms: perfect, innate knowledge (education rewakens what we already know) We don t need sensory (it will guide us away focus on contemplation from true knowledge immortal psyche. Psyches: nutritive (plant) biological function (growth, reproduce, maintain, sensitive (animal) imagination and locomotion (memory, sensation, rational (sensitive) abstraction & deliberation (weighting of options), and recollection (priming, conscious. Tabula rasa blank slated mind (use sensory info to get information) Lifestyle idolize hierarchy of nature (complexity increases going towards top = gods) Reason > emotion (energy put in here) Rational, mortal, biological psyche (more complex than blood and bones) Our diff beliefs causes diff emotion = systematic determination of worth. Persuasive = good person + honest argument + evoke truthful emotions (do not pervert the judge)