All Souls' Day

get a better understanding of the concept of the soul, one should know its meaning from different religious perspective.In Judaism, the soul is the referred to as nephesh and ruah, which means breath and wind or spirit respectively. Two essential concept of the soul in this religion is that every living thing has a soul,which is referred to as the life-force and that emotions and the fundamental core of the human beings are stored in the soul.“All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of…

the city and the individual itself will have to have a similar structure, a structure in which the soul of the human being would have to have interconnecting parts that rely on one another just like people in cities rely on one another. The analogy that he presents would have to be validated, meaning that there are clear similarities in terms of the structure of a city and the structure of the human soul. Yet, the structures are in fact not similar because there is a difference in examination…

the pros and cons of each view I will explain why psychological identity is the most sound of all three theories; when it comes…

Our minds and body correlate to each other and are the reason we can move and willingly do what we want. However, are our minds and body distinct? Can we even exist without a mind or without a body? Rene Descartes’ theory of “Mind-Body Dualism” discusses such philosophical questions and claims that although our mind and bodies are synced, they are not similar by way of division. Many questions remain on how “Mind-Body Dualism” works, many of which will be discussed in this paper, beginning with…

reality. For the dualist, the way of thinking is an internal thinking on the inside that is private. I fully agree with Descartes’s concept of dualism. The mind is a lot more than chemical reactions going on in the brain. Thoughts, feelings, desire are all properties of the mind but not its parts. I…

argument for this conclusion and critically evaluate it. The argument appears to commit the fallacy of equivocation. But I think Socrates’ argument can be salvaged by very slightly reformulating it. Nevertheless, the argument tacitly assumes that the soul is immortal and survives the body’s death. Without a defense of this controversial…

In high school, I read a short story called The Bet by Anton Chekhov. The story was about a young lawyer who made a bet with a banker that imprisonment for fifteen years was better than the death penalty. Like Socrates in Plato’s Crito the lawyer was trying to contest society’s beliefs. While in confinement the lawyer reads many books, whose topics ranged from languages to philosophy. After fifteen years of solitary confinement the lawyer rejects his prize money and defaults on the bet, just…

was said to be the " seat of the soul". Philosophers have claimed that the pituitary gland is the habitat of the soul Before criticizing the claim, articulate it clearly so that we understand why someone would make each a claim. In other words, present the argument of your opponent in debate, try to articulate 3 points ( around 300 words In order for us to give our claim a true reason we must give reasons to why this claim came to be. First of all 'The Soul '. This is considered the…

the problem concerning the immortality of the soul, both Plato and Hume must rely on analogy. Plato, being a rationalist, argues that the soul is immortal and is comparable to a form, for it is invisible and incomposite, unlike material objects. Hume, on the other hand, believes that the soul is mortal and compares souls to perishable objects such as bodies. Although neither analogy can offer any validity, Hume 's argument for the mortality of the soul is far more compelling than Plato 's…

For instance, Princess Elizabeth’s understanding of causation cannot explain all causal interactions (e.g. the relation of time and the body which causes the process of aging). Therefore, there are some things that we cannot truly comprehend. One of those things, according to Descartes, is the causal relationship between the mind…