What he goes on to say is that the mind and the soul are two different beings and they both have their own set of thoughts. Although the body when awake is thinking as the person should through whatever experiences he was brought up on; the soul never stops thinking and only goes on to think and feel while the body is asleep. Its like being two people at the same time or going back to metaphysics and asking whether or not you can exist and not exist at the same time. There is a lot more to it including something about two diff rent individuals, and what I'm assuming considering the reading is a bit challenging, sharing one soul. While one sleeps the other is awake with the sleeping mans soul. Its weird, but I may be interpreting it the wrong way. Any suggestions welcome.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Human Understanding (Locke) page 63 (11)
"Or if it be possible that the soul can, whilst the body is sleeping, have its thinking, enjoyments, and concerns, its pleasure or pain, apart, which the man is not conscious of, nor partakes in, it is certain that Socrates asleep, and Socrates awake, is not the same person."
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I think that what he is trying to say is that a person's soul has two sides. A good side and a bad side and they can not both be conscious at the same time. One is conscious while the other is unconscious or asleep. I think he was saying that people are born with two sides and some people choose to listen to the bad side and others to the good or sometimes both. But if this is true this means that people are in control of their thoughts as well as their actions. Some people just chose to do bad things. But my question is what is it that makes a person chose to do wrong?
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