... everyday experiences such as walking down the road or eating an apple. Some philosophers manage the mind and soul problem by using a dualist approach. This theory sees the mind and body as two entities that are somehow interrelated. This notion can be most clearly seen in the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle. In Platonic thought, the body is finite and corrupt. Most Greeks held the body in contempt and saw it as a prison for the immortal soul. "...So long as we keep to the body and our soul is contaminated with this imperfection, there is no chance of our ever attaining satisfactorily to our object, which we assert to be Truth... the body provides us with innumerable distractions in the pursuit of our necessary substance..." -Socrates from 'The Phaedo' Plato saw that, upon death, the soul would be released from the body and would be free of corruption and thus spend ...

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