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	'''Trichotomy''' (from the {{Greek\|τρία}} ''tria'' "three" and {{lang\|grc\|τομή}} ''tomé'' "cut, division") or '''trialism'' (from the {{Latin\|trialis}} "containing three") is the term used to describe the threefold division of the [[human being]] into the three [[members]] of [[spirit]], [[soul]] and [[body]]. In the Catholic Church, the doctrine of trichotomy has been considered heresy since the [[Fourth Council of Constantinople]] ([[869]]). It was replaced by the [[dichotomy]], which concedes only body and soul to man and denies his independent spirit. This dualistic view continues to have an effect in [[philosophy]] and the [[science]]s to this day, as shown by the never-ending discussions about the [[body soul problem]], which are primarily linked to [[Descartes]]' postulated division of the human being into a spatially extended physical ''[[res extensa]]'' and an inextensible, point-like soul-spirit ''[[res cogitans]]''. How a psychophysical interaction is supposed to occur between these completely different substances remains completely unclear. From an [[Anthroposophy\|anthroposophical]] point of view, however, body, soul and spirit are not different substances but, in the sense of a consistent [[monism]], different manifestations of one and the same spiritual substance. This can be compared to water, which can appear as gaseous steam, as liquid water and as solid frozen ice.		'''Trichotomy''' (from the {{Greek\|τρία}} ''tria'' "three" and {{lang\|grc\|τομή}} ''tomé'' "cut, division") or '''trialism''' (from the {{Latin\|trialis}} "containing three") is the term used to describe the threefold division of the [[human being]] into the three [[members]] of [[spirit]], [[soul]] and [[body]]. In the Catholic Church, the doctrine of trichotomy has been considered heresy since the [[Fourth Council of Constantinople]] ([[869]]). It was replaced by the [[dichotomy]], which concedes only body and soul to man and denies his independent spirit. This dualistic view continues to have an effect in [[philosophy]] and the [[science]]s to this day, as shown by the never-ending discussions about the [[body soul problem]], which are primarily linked to [[Descartes]]' postulated division of the human being into a spatially extended physical ''[[res extensa]]'' and an inextensible, point-like soul-spirit ''[[res cogitans]]''. How a psychophysical interaction is supposed to occur between these completely different substances remains completely unclear. From an [[Anthroposophy\|anthroposophical]] point of view, however, body, soul and spirit are not different substances but, in the sense of a consistent [[monism]], different manifestations of one and the same spiritual substance. This can be compared to water, which can appear as gaseous steam, as liquid water and as solid frozen ice.

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'''Trichotomy''' (from the {{Greek|τρία}} ''tria'' "three" and {{lang|grc|τομή}} ''tomé'' "cut, division") or '''trialism'' (from the {{Latin|trialis}} "containing three") is the term used to describe the threefold division of the [[human being]] into the three [[members]] of [[spirit]], [[soul]] and [[body]]. In the Catholic Church, the doctrine of trichotomy has been considered heresy since the [[Fourth Council of Constantinople]] ([[869]]). It was replaced by the [[dichotomy]], which concedes only body and soul to man and denies his independent spirit. This dualistic view continues to have an effect in [[philosophy]] and the [[science]]s to this day, as shown by the never-ending discussions about the [[body soul problem]], which are primarily linked to [[Descartes]]' postulated division of the human being into a spatially extended physical ''[[res extensa]]'' and an inextensible, point-like soul-spirit ''[[res cogitans]]''. How a psychophysical interaction is supposed to occur between these completely different substances remains completely unclear. From an [[Anthroposophy|anthroposophical]] point of view, however, body, soul and spirit are not different substances but, in the sense of a consistent [[monism]], different manifestations of one and the same spiritual substance. This can be compared to water, which can appear as gaseous steam, as liquid water and as solid frozen ice.

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