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    driver has charge of a pair; secondly, one of them he finds noble and good, and of similar stock, whole the other is of the opposite stock, and opposite in its nature…” (Plato 246b2-4). As a metaphor of the soul, the soul must manage reason, the white horse, with desire, the black horse. The soul must be diligent when steering both horses because the black horse is able to overpower the white horse. To describe the consequences mismanaging the black horse, Socrates states, “Some mischance is…

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    that each person has a soul made up of three parts, all of which correspond with the three classes in society. “Is there one element in us for learning, another for feeling spirited, and yet a third for our desire for the pleasures of food, sex, and things like that?” (Plato, 436 a-b). The rational part of the soul is responsible for seeking truth, as well as our individual philosophical inclinations and relates to the guardian class, whereas the spirited part of the soul corresponds to the…

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    that the soul is immortal, and I agree with him that it is. He talks about the immortality of the soul in Phaedo and in the Republic. He has multiple arguments for how and why it is immortal, and every one of them makes sense to me. Plato’s writings on the soul are fascinating to me. All of the arguments he has to prove that the soul is immortal make me really think, and in some cases gave me words to describe something I had already thought about. When Plato writes about the soul in…

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    rituals that were fitting to his cultures lay concepts of illness. In the film the Shaman was not feeling well so he decided to a special ceremony to see if his and families souls have wondered off, in American culture this ceremony is probably not known of but in the Hmong culture this ceremony is preformed to see if the their soul has gone away. Every culture has their own ways of looking at things and dealing with…

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    In Phaedo, Simmias believes that the soul is similar to the harmony made from an instrument. Socrates points out two statements that make Simmias rethink his views on the soul and the body. As Socrates turns down Simmias 's theory of the soul, not only is he able to convince Simmias, he is also able to make great arguments that support his ideas on how the soul cannot be relatable to the attunement of an instrument. Simmias 's opinion on the soul is that the harmony that is produced by an…

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    Throughout history, philosophers have been setting up plenty of theories to determine if the mind and the body are one. Substance dualism is one of those theories. Specifically, Descartes is a dualist who brings up the indivisibility argument about the mind that has been trusted until science is well developed. Even though Descartes’ argument is well-accepted, it is not strongly supported by factual evidence, and it is easily defeated by a simple question, which is how the mind and the body…

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    A person’s right to their body has been an issue often debated throughout human history. Some examples of body right struggles include body snatching, organ harvesting, legal kidnapping, and abortion. In a novel by Neal Shusterman entitled Unwind, the repurposing of human teenagers is decided by their parents or legal guardians. Unwind exemplifies how an individual’s “right” to their body is determined by others. Unwind exaggerates and expands the issues society faces today about body right…

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    Throughout his journey, the young man acquired beliefs that he retained and compounded in order to reach spiritual contentment. The river unleashed vestiges of Siddhartha’s past, awakening dormant parts of his soul. “With a distorted countenance he stared into the water…Then from the remote part of his soul, from the past of his tired life, he heard a sound…the holy Om…” (Page 72) The river reminded Siddhartha of a fundamental element of his life, which originated from his time as a Brahmin,…

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    will present Plato’s notions of the soul in the dialogue Phaedrus, in comparison to his notion of the soul in the Republic. His conceptions in each are similar on the grounds that he accepts the human soul as tripartite, with respects to the same parts that the soul is made up of. However, they differ in terms of the distinct analogies Plato uses to show how the three parts of the soul function individually, and together, as one unit. Plato asserts that the human soul is composite and tripartite…

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    reincarnation. The soul would go on a journey greeted by ancestors, souls of dead could pass between “the world of dead and the world of the living. Australian aboriginal views are the person’s actions during life has no impact on health oh his spirit in the afterlife. There is no hell or heaven. Two souls that merged at death. Eternal dreaming is never ending cycle which is reincarnation. Land of the dreaming ancestors and God and ancestors are the land of the dead deceased person soul went…

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