A Little Soul

When I was little I saw an angel. I can see her face in my mind 's eye as vividly as I saw her through my seven-year-old eyes. I was in a grocery store with my mother, and as parents often do, she asked me to run down another aisle to get something for her. To be exact, she wanted tortillas. When I came back, she was nowhere to be found. Scared and panicking, I started to cry. A man saw me in distress and came to my aide. He grabbed my hand and told me my mommy was loading up the car full of…

is wise and that human wisdom is worth little or nothing. Also, he realized that he was the wisest because he realized the fact that whatever he did not know, he did not claim to know, while others claimed to know something which they did not. Considering the above mentioned distinctions,…

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about making connections from the perspective of a spider and his soul. Using both literal and figurative observations he shows the conflicts each face and how both overcome their difficulties. Why would his soul struggle to make connections? How will observing a spider help with this challenge when both are so different? What has impelled the poet to have an observer watch the spider? What significance does writing in the literal and then the figurative tense have on…

that has symbolisms that can help express its message. The symbolisms in the poem are coiled in shells of loneliness, in the flush, holy temple, chains, Angel, love, life, train, pain, bold, souls, dare, cost, light, liberating, ecstasies and timidity. Coiled in shells of loneliness mean to live in our own little world. Temple is other people, human body, building devoted to the worship, and God. In the flush is surrounded, strong emotions, abundant supply of something, and a state of great…

Socrates explains in the Phaedo that death is not bad and he looks forward to death as a philosopher. His main reason as to why he looks forward to death is his belief that the soul is immortal. In Phaedo Socrates says that he and other philosophers spend their whole life preparing for death and strengthening their souls. While on the other hand, The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy tells a story of someone who gets hit with an unexpected and painful death and realizes that he regrets his…

In order to understand the mechanical character of Descartes’ physiology it is necessary to establish, firstly, that he considers the human body as a material substance, different from the soul, though connected with it. This distinction has been called classically ‘dualism’. In his Meditations, Descartes argues that the meditator recognizes herself as a thinking substance: ‘But what am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is…

The separation of soul and body has captivated philosophers for ages. Most religious people believe and support the idea of dualism because frankly the other options are a little sad and disappointing. If mind and body are the one and the same, then the idea of soul and religion is redundant and if that is the case, then nothing of you exists when your body doesn’t. Foder not only dismisses the theory of dualism, he also supports a radical functionalist theory of mind. According to him humans…

a person. According to Plato, every person’s soul can be divided into three main parts. The first part is the rational part which seeks out the truth of the surrounding environment. Next comes the part of the soul that is responsible for the emotions that we feel; this part of the soul is the spirited part. The want to have honor and other feelings of contentment comes from within this spirited section of the soul. Finally, there is a part of the soul that is responsible for wanting everything…

Professor Escalante PHILO 1301 11/2/2017 Response Paper 1 “Do We Survive Death?” In this interesting chapter, James Rachels starts by uncovering the philosophy of Socrates about the immortal soul. At that point, he utilizes the scientific argument to conflict with Socrates' conclusion about the presence of the soul as a piece of the human body. He at last finishes by talking about different confirmations of the Afterlife and by articulating the contention of David Hume against miracles. As…

The human state of innocence is a state where one’s soul, esp. a child’s, is at liberty from the transgression and moral depravation of the world. Theologically, Paley believes that Blake’s state of innocence “externally and generically, applies to the condition of man before the fall; internally and psychologically…