This document discusses different philosophical views on what constitutes a human person and their embodied spirit. It presents three main views: the unspirited body view which sees a person as just their physical body; the disembodied spirit view which sees the body and soul as separate, as proposed by Plato; and the embodied spirit view which sees the body and soul as united, as proposed by Aristotle. It explores the views of Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on the relationship between the body and soul or spirit. Plato believed in three parts of the soul - rational, spiritual and appetitive. Aristotle saw three levels of soul - vegetative, sensitive and rational. Thomas Aquinas proposed that man is a substantial unity of body