Soul

very clear give and take relationship between the spirits of nature and the physical world. Any action from man will warrant a consequence from nature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the tale of the mariner learning that the natural world has a soul of sorts, and needs to be treated with respect. We will explain this by looking at different examples of this throughout the story. The first being the several times where the natural world seems to almost be a character itself, seen through its…

Through fire, metal is refined and defined purer and stronger as impurities are flaked away. With proper handling, the blacksmith forges the beauty from raw materials. Likewise, an individual who is faced with difficulties, sometimes almost too great to bear, is made sturdier and holier while enduring personal trials God allows in life. We all know this fire very well at some point in our days on Earth. As a master artisan, rest assured that God does not let His work be destroyed by the…

Socrates ' conciliatory sentiment shows his profound learning in logic pretty much as the Delphic Oracle expressed "there is no individual living savvier than Socrates". The best case of Socrates trial and passing approves the cozy relationship between his character and reasoning. He trusted that logic ought to triumph in pragmatic results for the more prominent prosperity of society. Socrates endeavored to set up a moral framework in view of human reason as opposed to philosophical instructing.…

From the first stanza, the Emily Dickinson starts off with a hopeful suggestion to the audience that “hope” is like a thing with feathers which is perched within the soul. The author seems to be using the metaphor that hope is like a bird because birds with feathers. Since birds perch on objects, the soul is used as a metaphor to suggest to the audience that the bird or hope is sitting inside the person. The audience from this point could assume that the bird or hope is inside every person. The…

Commencing with the presupposition that the soul / spirit departs the human body at some time after death, it needs a place to reside. Whilst the actual names of these places differ, three basic destinations emerged as common to most religions by the beginning of the first century C.E. Heaven, Hell – Hades or an Intermediate State, in most theologies, these places exist outside of ‘normal’ time, i.e. past, present and future can co-exist. Heaven Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious,…

seen as a pernicious and self-destructive action misleading the soul into ignorance, a condition of the individual incapable of appreciating the true nature of life and existence. On the other hand, telling spoken lies is an ennobling action with not direct repercussions in the soul, for the reason that spoken lies are not real lies, but mere imitations of the Idea lie. Contrary to the negative effect that true falsehoods have over the soul, spoken lies can help an individual to arrive to the…

The Catholic Church has been guiding civil morality since its inception, be it through the Ten Commandments or church dogmatic teaching. However, society no longer looks to the Church as its primary source of moral teaching, especially with the new libertarian doctrines surrounding human life (both neonatal and elderly). Modern society has created a new dogma of conscience that emphasizes the selfish needs of the individual and disregards the needs of the collective. Such an example is Canada’s…

The perception of the relationship between and the Earth’s population has varied vastly throughout time, even within the same religion. While the earliest conceptions envision a God who embodies general human behavior, St. Augustine, one of the most influential thinkers throughout the history of Christianity, posits a much different view in his self-described letter to God Confessions. Prior to his days of devout piety, St. Augustine had subscribed to the faith of the Manichees, preventing him…

Louis Groarke in his book, Moral Reasoning: Rediscovering the Ethical Tradition, has a chapter based solely on Socrates and his student Plato called Socrates and Plato. Chapter four: Socrates and Plato are based really based on Plato’s work. Socrates, similar to Jesus, never wrote or documented anything as far as we currently know, and so we rely mostly on Plato’s text to determine who Socrates was. The titled of the chapter is Socrates and Plato, though all we really understand is who Plato was…

Ghost are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. A ghost is thought of as a disembodied soul, a soul of a dead person inhabiting the world. One case of ghosts was with a Greek philosopher Athenodoros Cananites, who saw a haunted house and started watching it at night since he was interested in what was going on. He said one night an old man, bound at the feet and hands with rattling chains, appeared to him and beckoned…