PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eudaimonia, Materialism
12 Aug 2020
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Three general views of the person or the relation between mind/consciousness/soul and matter/body. Dualism: the metaphysical view that all things are reducible to two different realities: else? the material/corporeal and the immaterial/incorporeal. Plato: the body is a prison for the immaterial soul. Descartes: the body is a tool/instrument for the mind. everything in the material world. In the case of human beings, body and soul. Hylomorphism: the necessary twofold composition, material and formal, of. Materialism: the metaphysical view that matter with its motions and qualities is the ultimate reality of all things. The self is a stream of conscious states connected by memory. Some key platonic themes: many of plato"s positions seem to be a careful elaboration of the key principles which socrates presupposed, but never proved. Eudaimonism: the goal of our actions is the attainment of happiness. I may not be the best person to know whether. The good is defined as what contributes to happiness.
