A Little Soul

insofar as one cannot do without them? I think the true philosopher despises them.” (Phaedo 64d2-6, 64e3-5). This means that philosophers are only worried about the happiness of their soul. Since they are spacing themselves from the wants of the body they should see death as an even more celebrated detachment of soul and body. As stated by Socrates, true philosophers are preparing for death throughout all their lives. Philosophers in particular are unafraid to die because since they do devote…

of God” because of how nature’s laws are perfect even when we see them as having flaws. That they are a certain way because it is a small part of a big puzzle. He explains in the book about light, and how it ends up reflecting on earth. The rational soul is what Descartes said God put in our body that is different from all other living things. It is what enables us to reason. “For on examining the functions that could, as a consequence, be in this body, I found there precisely all those things…

the mind and body are already separated and mind more closely represents the soul. Fundamentally I believe these two would agree since both believe in a different source of knowledge although one predetermined and the other intellectual, the idea that there is something more than the senses is still shared. Also, the idea and want to separate from the body is also something very similar. Plato wants to separate the soul from the body since it is more of a restraint than anything else while…

Space is the way the foreground, middle ground, and the background are treated. For Sesshu, space helps depict the theme better by having negative space between Bodhidharma and Huike. In the foreground, Huike is in his own space and there is no overlapping. Next, in the middle ground, it is Bodhidharma but his space is enclosed by the cave, mimicking his posture. In the background, it is the cave where it overlaps with layers of the rocks sprawling across the page. On the left side, there is…

Ever since the beginning of mankind, humans have pondered the purpose of their existence. Throughout history, a variety of philosophers, as well as authors, have asserted what they think to be the meaning of life. Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates all offer a unique outlook on the age old question of human existence. The authors of these books assert…

In The Republic, given that it is hard to define individual justice merely based upon individual level analysis, Plato expands the horizon to discover the notion of social justice in order to draw a connection with individual justice. He constructs the model of an ideal city and divides it into three distinct classes – the gold, the silver, and the bronze. Based on this categorization, he claims that social justice is “doing one’s own job, and not trying to do other people’s jobs for them”…

Socrates’ Responsibilities in Plato’s The Death and Trial of Socrates Socrates has made a lasting impression on readers for millennia. Being an outspoken mind that taught his methods to others, his legacy continued through his protégée, Plato, whose own works have also greatly influenced today’s modern ideology (Class Notes January 24th). In Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates is accused by Meletus of corrupting Athens’ young, creating new deities and not believing in the city’s…

INTRODUCTION: The following are argument analysis of arguments that mainly comprises the “Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous” and “Treatise concerning the principle of Human Knowledge” both written by George Berkley , who is an Irish philosopher and coined the philosophical concept called “immaterialism” which denies that materials exist in the world and are the fundamental building blocks of reality , indeed it says that it is the ideas which really exist in the minds of the…

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…

Cannibalism They have pretty much a nomadic lifestyle. They stay in community and share their culture with each other. They justify their act of eating human flesh as holy. As per their logic when a person dies he just becomes a useless body of flesh his soul simply escapes from the…