Quotation recognition quiz- Theories or Reality

“Arise! Awake! Approach the great and learn… the self is not born, nor does it die.”

Katha Upanishad
→ Eternal soul (Atman), immortality, spiritual knowledge

“There must be a first mover, itself unmoved.”

Thomas Aquinas
→ Logical proof of God (First Way: motion)

“Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.”

Bertrand Russell
→ Critique of religion, no evidence for God

“I think, therefore I am.”

René Descartes
→ Certainty of the thinking self, radical doubt

“The self is not a thing… it is constructed by the brain.”

Patricia Churchland
→ Self = brain-based process, neuroscience explains identity

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“We do not have souls, yet we are still morally responsible beings.”

Nancey Murphy
→ Physicalism + morality, no soul but still meaningful humans

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“The ‘I’ is the sum of the memories of the group.”

Viola Cordova
→ Identity comes from relationships and community

“I am because we are, and since we are, therefore I am.”

Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
→ Personhood is created by the community

“There is something it is like to be that organism.”

Thomas Nagel
→ Subjective experience (consciousness cannot be reduced to science)

“Dolphins display intelligence, self-awareness, and social complexity—traits associated with personhood.”

Denise Herzing & Thomas White
→ Non-human animals may be persons

“The self is a representation created by neural processes.”

Patricia Churchland
→ Brain constructs models of self and world

“Human beings are not separate from nature, but part of a living whole.”

Viola Cordova
→ Humans are connected to Earth and all life

“A person is something one becomes, not something one is at birth.”

Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
→ Personhood develops through moral/social growth

“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause.”

Bertrand Russell
→ Critique of First Cause argument

“The senses can deceive us, so we must doubt everything.”

René Descartes
→ Method of doubt