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Similarities Plato René: Name: Daniella Ethel M. Paraiso Course and Year: BSTM 1-1AA

Plato and René Descartes shared some key similarities in their conceptions of human nature and the self. Both philosophers believed in a distinction between the mind and body, with the mind or soul being superior and more important than the physical body. For Plato, the soul was the self and was made up of distinct elements like appetite and reason. Descartes also viewed the mind or soul as the true self, defining the self as a thinking subject and emphasizing mental states over bodily ones. Both associated the ego or "I" with an incorporeal component of human nature.

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Similarities Plato René: Name: Daniella Ethel M. Paraiso Course and Year: BSTM 1-1AA

Plato and René Descartes shared some key similarities in their conceptions of human nature and the self. Both philosophers believed in a distinction between the mind and body, with the mind or soul being superior and more important than the physical body. For Plato, the soul was the self and was made up of distinct elements like appetite and reason. Descartes also viewed the mind or soul as the true self, defining the self as a thinking subject and emphasizing mental states over bodily ones. Both associated the ego or "I" with an incorporeal component of human nature.

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Name: Daniella Ethel M.

Paraiso Course and Year: BSTM 1-1AA

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Plato René
Plato conceives of the self as a Self is defined by Descartes as
knower. Plato's self-concept is Both believed in a clear a thinking subject. He
built on his observations on the distinction between mind resents the mind-body
nature of the rational soul as the and body when it came to argument. Descartes believes
greatest form of knowledge. human nature. They both that the mind, or soul, is
Plato believes that the soul is think that people are either superior to the body because
the self. He presents the soul- pure egos or immaterial "mental states" occur in the
souls. Both philosophers
body argument.  According to mind. This is because, for
believe that humans are
this viewpoint, people have Descartes, mental states like
made up of something
bodies only if they choose to, incorporeal, whether it is thinking, imagining, and
not because they have to; as a referred to as a ‘mind' or a analyzing are more important
result, they can exist beyond ‘soul,' that is temporarily than bodily ones such as pain,
death. The appetite, the spirited linked with a physical hunger, and thirst in our lives as
or hot-blooded part, and the body. Both associate the persons. To put it another way,
mind, as according to him, are ego, the "I," with the Descartes believes that the
three (3) distinct elements in a alliance's incorporeal mind is what makes us human.
person's inner life or soul. component. As a result, Descartes considers
the "mind" to be the "true self."

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