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A 5 pages research paper/essay that discusses how the problem of how to perceive the interaction of the mind to the body has been perceived philosophically. The writer/tutor uses two books and one film as sources, focusing particularly on how personal identity should be defined. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The answers to these questions have addressed the nature of reality and society, in general, as well as the narrower perspective of how to consider the self. Contemporary writers
continue to ponder these questions, as the following examination of three sources, two books and one film, illustrates. In his book, Voices of Wisdom, Gary E. Kessler offers an
overview of the various ways in which philosophers have considered the relationship between the mind and the body, that is, to what, precisely, does the pronoun "I" refer. The philosophical
approaches to the mind-body problem fall into two broad categories: dualistic and monistic (Kessler, 2010). Dualistic theories content that the body and the mind are two different substances; the mind
being "conscious, non-spatial and private" and the body being "unconscious, spatial and public" (Kessler, 2010, p. 504). One of the most interesting approaches to the mind-body question of identity
is idealism, which "attempts to reduce matter to mind" (Kessler, 2010, p. 504). For example, Berkeley asserted that since everything that is experienced occurs as sensations within the mind, and
sensations are mental, considerations of matter are unnecessary, as from the perspective of humanity, the only reality is that of mental events (Kessler, 2010). George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an
Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their promotion of materialism (Gaarder, 2007). Berkeley argued that since
all information is perceived by the senses, when the assumption is made that what is perceived has substance, the individual is "jumping to conclusions," as there is "no experience on
which to base such a claim" (Gaarder, 2007, p. 279). While a person may feel that she or he has hit something hard, the same conviction can be held from
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