All Souls' Day

have studied Socrates’ sayings with much admiration on his wisdom. Socrates’ most prestigious words come bravely when he is facing his own death. In Socrates’ last dialogue, the Phaedo, Socrates argues for the existence of the soul by giving four arguments as to why the soul is eternal. He argues the argument from opposites, argument from the equal also known as the theory of recollection, the argument from affinity, and the argument from the “form of life.” These arguments were made hundreds…

[Step 1] In the Phaedo, Socrates makes an argument that the soul must be immortal (78b-84b). This argument is referred to as the Affinity Argument. It begins at 78b in the Phaedo, when Socrates asks to which class of things the soul belongs. What Socrates means by the “soul” is the self; the mind (Phaedo 65c & 66e). What Socrates means by “class” is class of existence. This is best illustrated in another of Plato’s accounts of Socrates, The Republic, where his standard of measurement of…

Bradstreet’s poetry reveals her emotions and allows others to experience these emotions as well. She describes her experiences with life’s ups and downs and personal struggle. Bradstreet, as a Puritan, was devoted to God and believed His will controlled all things. In her poems “The Flesh and the Spirit” and “Upon the Burning of Our House” Bradstreet writes about her faith in God and the struggle of resisting the temptation of world. In the poem “The Flesh and the Spirt” Bradstreet illustrates…

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…

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…

what it brings and not for what it is. (ii) According to Glaucon if there is a law that makes illegal to make firewood from your neighbor’s grove, breaking this law would be unjust. This is due to the fact that we have a general agreement between all of us to follow the laws. Breaking this specific law would mean breaking the agreement. Breaking an agreement is by definition unjust therefore breaking this law is unjust. Moreover when we respecting this argument we…

Death?” Thesis: The idea of an immortal soul is a controversial topic since there is not enough evidence to really know what happen after we die. In this chapter, Rachels analyzes three main points of the evidence of a soul that is immortal which include near-death experiences, reincarnation, and psychic communication with the death. Summary: In the “Do We Survive Death” Rachels shows an important theory that relates to Socrates’ belief in an immortal soul. Socrates believed that being dead…

appearance of virtue. But if virtue is the supreme constituent of happiness, then one could not be happy without being (genuinely) virtuous, and one could not be virtuous without being happy. We have also seen that in the Republic, Plato divides the soul…

The mind, soul, and mental state are very complex elements that separate humans from other animals. Some will argue that the previously stated elements do not exist at all, and that everything a person feels or does can be explained by the brain. Currently, however, the brain cannot explain the sense of “I.” The sense of “I” being, the realization of oneself as a self, an individual with almost continuous thoughts and the ability to self reflect. To strengthen their argument, philosophers,…

not be afraid of death. Socrates and Lucretius would have their own responses to each other 's argument if they were to reply to each other. Socrates argument on why we should not be afraid of death is broken down into four different arguments. All four of the arguments are based on…