All Souls' Day

“You haven’t changed. Even after all these years, I’d expected you to have matured slightly.” Raja’s mouth fell open. “I’m older than you.” “Not in Helix years,” Charlie replied, “and that’s all that matters in this empire.” The boy narrowed his eyes. “I’ve been alive for like a hundred years. That counts for something.” “Raja,” I reached beneath the seat and took…

Introduction Christians generally believe in a place where the unredeemed go to after death: Christians generally believe in hell. Essentially all Christians believe that hell is a horrendous possibility. Christian assemblies tend to avoid discussing this concept. Grant Le Marquand wrote, “Even in very traditional ecclesiastical settings, the subject is not often broached.” Nevertheless, the doctrine of hell is a component of Christian theology. Although most Christians believe in hell, there…

ensues serves as the platform for a philosophical debate that primarily focuses on the soul. One of the visitors in attendance is a philosophy student of Socrates whose name is Cebes. Cebes objects to Socrates’ theory of the immortality of the soul. In the text he argues, “To prove that the soul is strong, that it is divine, that it existed before we were born as men, all this, you say, does not show the soul to be immortal but only long-lasting” (Phaedo 95d). Socrates provides answers to…

Olivia Vogel Introduction to philosophy Jones Defining the Self Can you really interpret oneself? If so, how can one person be continuously developing and be defined for that precise amount of time? Every day you are constantly changing, some people with dispute at the fact that they never really change, that they have always been the same. To me, I believe that it is fallacious, we humans evolve over time and we learn through experiences that come our way. The self is actually a…

Saint Augustine of Hippo was viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity whose writings and teachings influenced the development of western Christianity. Augustine was born in Roman, Africa and was raised by his Mother who was a devout Christian and Father a Pagan who converted to Christianity when baptized on his deathbed. At a young age Augustine was the first and only one in his siblings sent off to be educated. While being educated he became familiar with Latin…

becomes a material object after “selling his soul”. Dorian fails to comprehend the concept of ageing and it angers him that his painting will “never be older than this particular day in June”, however Dorian will and has aged passed it , he wishes “It were only the other way round.” Upon realising this it does cause Dorian real pain as a “sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife,” and…

argues that practicing philosophy is practicing for death. In the paper that follows, I will explain why Socrates argues that philosophy is to learning to die based on the theory of anamnesis and how this connects with the present day theory of biocentrism where the soul takes a central part in understanding the universe. First, I will detail the theory of anamnesis in the Meno. Then, I will show how based on the theory that philosophy is learning to die as outlined in the Phaedo. Finally, I…

as possible as was required in order to better resolve them. An example of how we have advanced by using almost the same kind of step is the human body. We have looked at each part and learned about them separately, to know how the parts of the body all come together. The third rule is: order of investigation/move from simple to more complex. You cannot jump in into multiplication without knowing addition, by taking smaller steps to gain knowledge on the most complex things. Descartes also says…

Kindred spirit I've found. Soft, gentle eyes of darkest brown betray the torment within. To be alone with you, if only for a moment- to see inside the man who’s dark, haunting, incredibly beautiful poetry, soothes my soul when put to song. To hold him in my arms would feel good- we are two souls, connected, tortured, haunted by the darkness of the world around us. Writing about it, keeps it at bay - his voice, encapsulating the thoughts of us unbalanced ones, that hang by a thin thread - our…

The Republic, Plato lays out several virtues that reside in his imagined city, Kallipolis, and therefore upon comparison, make up our souls. Wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice each have a certain place where they thrive. These virtues are rigid, applying only to the certain social groups Socrates dictates and therefore strictly relate to certain parts of the soul. Although through most of The Republic, Socrates deals with building his city of speech; this thought exercises exists to answer…