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"Disembodied existence can never be explained coherently because it is a contradiction in terms." Discuss.
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... "Disembodied existence can never be explained coherently because it is a contradiction in terms." Discuss. The term 'disembodied existence' begins to address the dualistic notion of life beyond the physical self. Dualist theories began in ancient Greece, around 600bc, and held that the body and soul were two separate entities; the body being mere mortal and dissoluble whilst the soul would eventually return to the world of the 'Forms', and was eternal, spiritual and immutable. This theory, held by Plato was just the beginning of dualist concepts, which despite greatly varying, always hold that human existence consists of 'dual' attributes. This opposes the monist concepts of the existence being impossible without a physical body or indeed any other attributes belonging to the material world. Monists suggest that looking for a soul within the body is like looking for a 'ghost in the machine' as Gilbert Ryle stated; one is simply
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