PHILOSOPHY OF MANCHRISTIANITYS

PERSPECTIVE
DICHOTOMY VS. TRICHOTOMY

DICHOTOMY
Man as BODY and SOUL
Thomas Aquinas
St. Augustine
PLATOS AND ARISTOTLES DUALISM
INFLUENCED Aquinas and Augustine

BODY AND SOUL

BODY
SOUL

PLATO

SOUL IS
LOGISTIKON
(Logical)
THUMOS
(spirited
emotion)
EPITHUETES
(appetitive
emotion)

ARISTOTLE

SOUL IS
Active Nous
(mind)
Passive Nous/
Sensitive
(sensual)
Nutritive/
Vegetative
(survival)

AUGUSTINE

SOUL IS
Rational/
Intellectual
(mind)
Sensation/
Perception
(sensual)
Volition(will)

AQUINAS

SOUL IS
Intelectual/
Perception
(mind)
Sensitive/
Emotive
(emotion)
Appetitive
(Desire,
Motive)

PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AUGUSTINE

AND AQUINAS

WILL MIND
EMOTION

WHAT ABOUT ST. PAUL AND OTHER

CHURCH WRITERS?

WILL MIND
SPIRIT
EMOTION

TRICHOTOMY

WILL MIND
SPIRIT
EMOTION

HEBREW OT AND GREEK OT/NT

TEXT SAY...

Hebrew

Greek

BASAR

SOMA,
SARX
NEPHESH PSUCHE
NESHAMAH

PNEUMA

English
BODY,
FLESH
SOUL,
PERSON
SPIRIT

GREEK AND LATIN NT TEXT SAY...

Greek

Latin

SOMA,
SARX
PSUCHE

CORPUS,
CARNE
ANIMA,

English

BODY,
FLESH
SOUL,
PERSON
PNEUMA SPIRITUS SPIRIT

So, what went wrong?

Whos right and whos wrong?
Are there other classical
philosophers who followed
trichotomy?
PNEUMA? PSUCHE?
Ha! Apples and Oranges!

LONG, LONG STORY. THAT

WOULD BE OUR NEXT
DISCUSSION?
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