Comparing The Views Of Mellissa And Melinda

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According to Plato the soul is immortal and way more valuable than the body. He believes that once the ties from the body and soul are cut the soul will move on. Plato creates an argument for how there is no real relationship between reality and the soul because the soul picks up things like senses and the body feelings like pleasure. Plato would agree with Melinda because they both share the same spiritual view on the world and ideas about souls. Aristotle believes the soul is that it is just another part of our body. He explains the soul helps us process the things we go through our everyday life but once we have died our soul does not continue on. Aristotle relies on scientific facts for his view on the world. Both Mellissa and Aristotle …show more content…

He states "The soul is in the very likeness of the divine, and immortal, and intelligible, and uniform, and indissoluble, and unchangeable; and the body is in the very likeness of the human, and mortal, and unintelligible, and multiform, and dissoluble, and changeable” which concludes he believes that once the ties from the body and soul are cut the soul will move on. Plato creates an argument for how there is no real relationship between reality and the soul because the soul picks up things like senses and the body feelings like pleasure. Plato and Melinda share opposite views about how they view life but Melinda could argue that after Mathew dies that his soul will move on to a better place. Melinda strongly believes in the medical facts and charts that Mathew is gone for good and doesn’t see the point of life support but would like to let go of her bother. She would use this argument because it is all for pulling the plug on life support because she feels that Mathew is gone and it would appease her sister if she approached it this way. I strongly believe that Mellissa still would still argue against pulling the plug on Mathew because she is so worried about the moral consequences that might follow. It seems that Mellissa has accepted that her brother will never be conscious again but doesn’t want to carry the burden of murdering him because it could affect her own soul. Mellissa could exploit …show more content…

For example he states “we must now extend our consideration from the 'parts' to the whole living body; for what the departmental sense is to the bodily part which is its organ that the whole faculty of sense is to the whole sensitive body as such” to argue that the body is what is important. Aristotle believes that once the body dies that the soul dies along with it. Aristotle and Mellissa have the same scientific outlook in life. They both rely on charts and scientific facts on how to look at the world and it influences their decisions. They both don’t believe in the spiritual world or an afterlife and believe that once the body can no longer function the person inside is gone. Mellissa would use the idea that the physical body is just a shell so there is no point of keeping Mathew alive. The doctors provided charts and scientific facts that Mathew will never come back so she believes that its time to let him go. Melinda would still disagree with this because she has a spiritual outlook in life and fears the moral consequences of cutting Mathew’s life short. As I’ve stated before Melinda cannot pull the plug on Mathew because in her eyes his soul still lives

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