All Souls' Day

and question reality to achieve philosophical thought. Additionally, the allegory of the cave teaches us that even though Socrates believes in the soul, if the world is in fact works similar to the allegory of the cave, souls do not exist. I believe these facts are significant because not only do we see a logical gap when…

question on whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness. The objections that he is arguing against is that happiness consists in goods of the soul, happiness is in some good of man himself, and happiness belongs to man, but does not belong to body as shown in a previous article and therefore, happiness consists in goods of the soul. Aquinas answers by saying that the thing we try to get and the use is not important if it is material. Since the soul is not ultimate happiness, it…

that an ideal life culminates in happiness attained through virtue. He sets happiness as a goal / purpose that all people should try to achieve. Plato and Chuang Tzu give their ideas of what they believe is an ideal life and the means to achieve it. In Republic, Plato states that fulfilling the reasons of the soul and doing your duty as a citizen is an ideal life, and the ‘happiest’ of all is the Philosopher-Kings. Chuang Tzu states in Basic Writings that those who live their lives according to…

something a being] signifies the truth of propositions” (Aquinas, I). Then, Aquinas goes on to say that essence is derived from a being in the first sense. Because a being can be divided into ten categories, essence according to Aquinas must be common to all substances of different genera and species. Moreover, essence can be found in its truest and most perfect form in the simplest of substances, which is God. However, God and other simple substances…

prepared to die because of his practice of philosophy which causes him to suppress bodily desires, therefore, ready to leave his body behind for the afterlife. He does not have a fear of death, but looks forward to it, because of its effects on the soul. Despite accepting death and even looking forward for its occurrence, Socrates explains why it would not be fitting to commit suicide…

Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade, she challenges this idea as she describes both the mind and the soul of the Portuguese people becoming collective unit within their music. By describing the history of fado and the development…

lines contain major ideas. “It’s us, find power” is a line that acts as a call on humans to see ourselves as a source of power because of how powerful the mind is. “Live life, mind power” refers to a point that Hopsin makes later in his song about how all concepts in religion, such as heaven for example, might just be in his mind. In doing so, he realizes that he can choose how he lives because of the power of the mind. His fascination with the mind becomes evident in his interview with Hard…

Socrates’s argument is that the physical body and the mind or soul are two separate aspects of ourselves. Socrates also argues that the soul uses the body as an instrument of perception. That the soul rules the body in the same way that the divine rules the mortals. The proof that as Socrates said our bodies are imperfect, they change, and they die are all around us as we can see with every human being. His ideas that the souls are unchanging and immortal, surviving the death of the body are…

In his mind, dying is a process of liberation. Aristotle claimed that our souls are trapped in our bodies by appetitive pleasures and bodily needs and once we die, the soul finally gets an opportunity to become itself and settle the world of highest importance. This statement shows why he was not afraid of getting a death penalty and why he never lamented or asked for mercy…

Personal identity can be understood as having a soul, an immaterial entity that makes us who we are, or it can be viewed as being defined as who we are by means of psychological continuity where we are defined by our memories and personal experiences. In this essay I will try to establish whether or not Locke’s Memory Criterion is the correct account of personal identity. What Is Personal Identity? One can only contemplate personal identity once the definition of ‘person’ is understood. I know…