Philosophical Reflection on Human
Personal Philosophical Reflection on the Human Person Human beings are beings that motion through life in search for a purpose; beings that are in continuous search for the grand truth –the truth that will answer questions such as “Why do we choose to exist, if the alternative which is non-existence seems to be much less of a hassle?” In our search for truth, one of the most common concept tackled is the concept of death. Since all human beings will cease to exist at one point in time, it would seem absurd to try to achieve so much just to render them useless upon our death in this material world. For if we believe that after our death in the material world there will be nothing more, even the argument that we live for the people around us or for the greatness we feel because of success would be futile because the bottom line would be that we will all die and our relationships nor our successes will not matter. I would then think that it useful to believe that when a human being ceases to exist in the material world, it should continue its existence in another world, for only then would it still be sensible for us to continue living. With this, I believe that the human being consists of soul and body, in which the soul is not separate from the body but is separable from it and by separable, I mean that it can be separated for a span of time, but not for eternity. Following part of Aristotle’s idea, I say that the soul is not separate from the body because I believe that a human being consists of soul and body, and if they are already entities in themselves they can no longer be the composition of the human being as one entity. Furthermore, if the soul and body are two separate entities then they will not be able to occupy the same space at the same time. Also, I believe that the soul is not separate from the body because if this is so, it would mean that the soul and the body can then operate even without each other. I would like to oppose the idea that