Discuss the significance of understanding human person as an embodied being.
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The world of Forms which is proposed by Parmenides whoinfluenced Plato in this type of world is a world that is eternal,perfect and unchanging.
Parmenides proved the world of Forms by his statement “ We
can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists isuncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging andcomplete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, allat once, one and continuous.
For Plato, reality is eternal and unchanging, it is the real world, theworld of forms. Everything in the world of senses is but animitation or a mere shadow of the ideal.Human beings participate in both the senses and the ideal worldbecause they have a material body and immaterial soul, synthesisof change and permanence.
Human beings is a body and soul, according to Plato,body is evil for it is inclined to temporal things; objectedto temporal satisfaction and happiness.
As stated by Origen, a Christian theologian and philosopher that is
also a Platonian “all rational beings were once pure intellects in the
presence of God, and would remain so forever had they not fallenaway through Koros
(satiety).”
Because of koros(sin) or our transgression and disobedience toGod we are punished by being given a body.
To be free it is a human task to gradually recollect the ideas the soul used toknow through education in order for it to be released from being imprisonedin our body and be able to return to its place in the world of forms, for thesoul is superior and exists eternally even after the body evanesces gradually.However, failure to recall everything the soul used to know, the soul has toundergo another imprisonment and this process will continually occur until thesoul is ready to go back to its place in the world of forms.
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To give a bodily form to; incarnate. . To represent in bodily or material form: "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodiedthe new" (Richard Hofstadter).
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