what is a human person

the metaphysical approach, existential approach

2 general kinds

Demiurge

A Platonic view of a god as one who crafts the world as a sculptor would shape a piece of stone or clay. Also used in Gnostic philosophical systems to describe an inferior or "lesser" being who is creator of the world, but less than a supreme god.

Disembodied spirit view

A human person is essentially just his/her spirit

cogito ergo sum

I think therefore I am

Plato and Rene Descartes

Pondered the relationship between the mind and body, and between knowledge and experience; disembodied spirit viewt

substance dualism

The theory that reality contains two kinds of substances: physical and mental

mind

emphasizes its consciousness

soul

emphasizes its life giving function

spirit

emphasizes its nonbodily nonbiological or nonphysical nature

existential approach

focuses on the kind of life, mode of existence, that is unique to a human person

embodied spirit view

human person is essentially the unity of his or her body and spirit

Martin Heidegger

mataphysical dealing with the what of a human person while the existential as dealing with the who if a human person

body

one undeniable fact about a human person is the he or she has a

soul mind spirit

other human components

Unspirited body view

position naturally results from the belief that humans do not have a spiritual component

reincarnation

the rebirth of the soul ; plato

anamnesis

theory of recollection

physical states

thoughts and emotions

rene descartes

views reality as composed of two diff types of substancrd mind matter

metaphysical approach

which focuses kn the kinds of substances or materials and capacities that uniquely make up a human person