All Souls' Day

The Death Traditions of World Religions There is no questioning that all beings on Earth inevitably die, however; each global religion has their own traditions pertaining to life’s final chapter. As a matter of fact, there is no concrete knowledge of the after life. Each religion reflects their personal values and teachings through their beliefs of the events that follow death. While researching, I discovered that some religious beliefs are alike, some very different, and some intertwined with…

Animals Have Souls Do animals have souls? Do people have souls? There are many differing definitions for the soul, and how can you begin to answer any of these questions without a chosen definition? Clarence Darrow’s “The Myth Of the Soul” and my secondary sources will conclude that yes, animals do have souls, and in fact, to think that they do not is much harder to believe. Jesus and Buddha praised vegetarianism because of a humans connectedness to all life (Jones-Hunt). Before eating meat…

Unlike the body, the soul is immortal. It is a form, or perhaps an idea that dictates the ideals of beauty. Unlike the soul, the body inevitably changes through body modifications, stress, health-related issues, and time. Soul, beauty, love, and the body all intertwine together, even if sometimes their ideas oppose each other, like the purity of the soul versus the impurity of the body. The relationship between the soul and the body, and love and beauty is well depicted in Plato’s Symposium:…

experienced death, they’ll never have their soul returned to them. Due to that fact that humanity will probably never know what the true answer is, one cannot help but ponder about what happens to our spirit after it leaves our body. That is exactly what Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius do in On the Nature of Things and Meditations, respectively. While Lucretius believes that our spirits are made of miniscule atoms, Marcus Aurelius believes that we are all limbs of God, striving to protect the…

In the Meno and in the Phaedo, Socrates claims that the human soul exists before birth. In the Meno, Socrates makes this claim by claiming that learning is not the discovery of something new, but a recollection of something already known by the soul before we were born, but have only forgotten. Socrates’ claim that knowledge is recollection does not apply to all kinds of knowledge, only to the knowledge of abstract, unchanging entities (i.e., mathematics) that are not subject to the vagaries and…

to be there for each other. Some differences are based upon religion, and imperfection. The poem “Alone,” Maya claims that people feel isolated when no one cares about them; the feeling about being alone with no human caring for one another. It is all about hopelessness. “There are some millionaires / with money they can’t use”…

Death is depressingly an inevitable consequence of life on all living things. Although life on Earth maybe very similar for all human beings, their belief in what happens after one passes away are very different. Some argue that there is no life after death at all, and life on earth is everything. While, on the other hand, others argue that there is life after death but even so, their interpretation of what life after death will exactly be like, also differs a lot from one another. This further…

Throughout Plato’s “The Republic” book V Plato advocates for equality of women time and again. Although in a modern day his motives cannot be viewed as a quest for equality, this ideology brought about an idea of change for ancient Athenians where women were viewed below men. Traditionally the women of ancient Greece stayed in their homes, cooked and cleaned, raised the children, and cared for their husbands but, in Plato’s eyes women and women are viewed as equals in most cases. In Plato’s eyes…

Four years have passed since I gave him my soul. He came to me today with a box. This box was odd. The odd thing was it was colored, these colors were like a void in space in time. I couldn 't keep my eyes off the box. The colors of the box moved like a wave the colors came in shades of blue, pink, and purple. Maybe my curiosity will kill me. Before I could open my mouth to ask my curious questions he started to talk in a hushed voice. "Elizabeth I know four years ago we made a deal, but now…

intellect, but rather a model for with which souls are to understand and imitate. The soul is in the center, spread throughout the body. It was created before the body to act as a ruler and control the body, its subject. God made the soul out of three elements: the same, the other and the essence. He then blended them into one form and again divided by proportions until he was satisfied with the result. “The body of heaven is visible, but the soul is invisible, and partakes of reason and…