Plato, Socrates Images Of The Human Soul

From the beginning of life, children are taught what believe, how to show that you believe it, but a lot of times they are not shown why it should be believed. Although adults were “trying to keep the souls of their children safe”, how safe are they if they are mindlessly completing acts without a pure motivation behind them? Growing up, I have always gone to Pentecostal holiness churches where we believed that women should always wear dresses, men should not wear shorts, and no one should work, shop, or dine out on Sunday in able for their soul to go to Heaven. Although I respected a lot of the church’s rules, I never fully understood why we did them till I was old enough to answer my own questions. I have grown up with the beliefs of the …show more content…
He also faces reality that, no one knows for sure, but he believes that the soul has no parts and is living life to life. According to Plato, the phenomenal world strives to become as close to perfect as possible. With this, he identifies the ideal with God and the way he is the perfect goodness. The world is nowhere near perfect, it is not because of God or the ideals, but because the raw materials were not perfect. I think you can see why the early Christian church made Plato an honorary Christian, even though he died three and a half centuries before Christ. Plato uses this same sequence of thoughts to explain his thoughts of the human body and the human soul. There’s the body, which is material, and there is the soul that is immortal. With this in mind, the soul includes reason, allowing it to be able to set its own morals. Plato claims that the soul will always choose to do good, if it recognizes what is good. While Plato shows the thought of the outside world to look into the soul, Aristotle suggests that the soul can should “inside” the phenomena. What Plato thought as immortal, Aristotle referred to as matter. Matter is without shape or form or purpose, leaving the thought that it may not even have any actuality. Essence is what provides the shape or form or purpose to matter. Essence is “perfect,” “complete,” but it has no substance. Drawing …show more content…
Although I agree with Plato’s point that our soul is immortal and that is can communicate with the world of forums, I cannot accept his overall conclusion that because there is life after death then there must be life after death in a new realism form. Turning to the thoughts of Aristotle the ideals put forth are a little more on the “common sense” side. With the four causes, he literally is stating the series of events with an objects creation, which I do support the matter cause, the efficient cause, the form cause, and the final cause because they circulate the reasoning of thoughts. Lastly I’m in agreement with the proposals of Aquinas. From the point that the first principle of life is the soul, to the body and soul are together, I most of his