Desouling Person

Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person

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 Chapter 1

I. Introduction

In Plato's Concept of the Body and Soul, the soul and the mind is an immortal

being and the body is the mortal which means, the body can die and it is the physical

appearance or the material being of the soul that lies in the body, when the body dies

the soul and the mind leaves the body and will be in the afterlife. According to Plato the

soul and the mind is the thinking being and it can live the without a physical being or the

body.

The soul is like a Remote of the Television, it controls the every action of the T.V.

like decreasing and increasing the sound or changing the channels. Just like the soul,

it controls every motion of the body.

This Research is about desouling a human person in the perception

and analysis of Owen Flanagan. The human body doesn’t have soul,

which contradict scientifically the views of different religion, which state that there

was a spiritual being or soul. A being in a case, a human body doesn’t have a

soul. It says that something that can’t be explained by science cannot be

considered as something that exist. But in religion, it states that there is a spiritual

being that resides in our body, called soul, religion states that a soul is

something that is powerful enough to control the “being”, that is

the soul needed together with the body to be “human” according to Plato.

II. Statement of the Problem

This research aims to answer the following:

1. What is the human soul?

2. Why science doesn‘t believe in soul?

3. What is a soul without a body?

4. What is a body without a soul?

5. What is the desouling person?

III. Research Objectives

1. To magnify the knowledge about desouling

2. To know the difference between soul without a body and body without a soul
3. To know why science doesn’t support the idea of soul

4. To know what is the reason why science and religion have a conflict about the
desouling person.

5. To know exactly the human soul is.

CHAPTER II

I. What is desouling according to Owen Flanagan

There is no consensus yet about the details of the scientific image

of persons. But there is broad agreement about how we must construct

this detailed picture. First, we will need to demythologize persons by rooting out certain

unfounded ideas from the perennial philosophy. Letting go of the belief in

souls is a minimal requirement. In fact, desouling is the primary

operation of the scientific image. "First surgery," we might call it.

There are no such things as souls, or nonphysical minds. If such things did exist,

as perennial philosophy conceives them, science would be unable

to explain persons. But there aren't, so it can. Second, we will need to

think of persons as part of nature — as natural creatures completely

obedient and responsive to natural law.

The traditional religious view positions humans on the Great Chain

of Being between animals on one side and angels and God on

the other. This set of beliefs needs to be replaced. There are no angels,

nor gods, and there is nothing — at least, no higher beings

for humans to be in-between. Humans don't possess some animal parts

or instincts. We are animals. A complex and unusual animal, but at

the end of the day, another animal.1

Desouling tackles that there are no souls in human body

and does not believe that there is an perennial philosophy, such as souls,

spiritual beings, angels, and god which contradict the belief in religions that said there

were souls in the human body

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 II. The Problem of The Soul

The very attributes that make us human--free will, the permanence

of personal identity, the existence of the soul--are being undermined

and threatened by the current revolution in the science of the mind. If the

mind is the brain, and therefore a physical object subject to deterministic

laws, how can we have free will? If most of our thoughts and impulses are

unconscious, how can we be morally responsible for what we do?

The Problem of the Soul shows the way out of these seemingly

intractable paradoxes. Framing the conflict in terms of two dominant visions

of the mind--the "manifest image" of humanistic philosophy and theology, 2

Human have different kind of attitude, personality, and identity.

We are the same. We have a soul in our body based in religion, naturally the science

doesn’t believe in perennial philosophy, because of the unexplained truth about the

soul. Nobody can tell, if there is a soul but it is our belief, that makes us believe that

there is a soul.

III. Human Animals

2

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To_Reconcile_Them
 Many thinks that the conflict between the perennial Philosophy and the

scientific image, and specially the resistance the scientific image provoke, lies in our

resistance to materialism, physicalism, naturalism. Call it what you will. The rub comes

from denying two things: what there is, and all There is, is the natural world: and that we

are animals. According to the scientific image, we are conscious animals Living at a

certain time in the broad sweep of natural and Social history.

Most traditions-religious, cultural, political, say we are more than animals. This is

not true. What we are usual animals. We have fancy capacities to reflect our own

Motives, intention, behavior, to modify, redirect, and Control ourselves. We are rational

animals and we are animal, that make things – Homo sapiens and Homo faber3

Scientifically we are animals that evolved and in the same time we develop our

intelligent that makes us in the top of the animal kingdom. That intelligent gives us the

right to choose. In religion we are higher than animals but still animals. We can

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physically and emotionally adjust the way we think. We develop we have the intelligent

that can’t compare to any other animals