Wish for privacy for certain biological functions. Dualism. Great chain of being. Bestial being negative etc.
I'd say brains were. Yes. And consistently see a need to mortify the flesh & strengthen the spirit.
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No one today or in the past is referring to "brains" when they speak of "the spirit". The...
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No. Often ppl thought the heart was where spiritual experiences happened. Neuroscience is new.
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Um, sort of. But most recognized that the body was *necessary* for human thought as lived.
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But corrupt. To be overcome. See saint's lives particularly.Virgins, barely ate or slept &this was supremely spiritual
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But we've diverged a lot from the main point which was actually a lot simpler.A squeamishness abt most basic functions
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which are spoken of in terms of bestiality - lowering to basest nature.
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immateriality of the intellect stems from a very specific set of arguments about knowledge which ->
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had nothing to do with distaste for our animalia. Aristotle considers it. It's about ->
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Here's the basic outline of the traditional position: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-is-soul.html …
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The same source on Agustine on the immateriality of the mind: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2014/11/augustine-on-immateriality-of-mind.html …
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This is the division in the Christian tradition, yes.Ideally move away from the material to the spiritual
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That's a way to *gloss* the idea, but it's more properly a *perfection* of life in Christianity.
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In the sense of completeness, yes. There is a lot more to it, of course.
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Do you remember the argument Augustine had abt whether women's bodies wld become men's in heaven to be perfect?
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