All Souls' Day

Plato uses numerous analogies to help demonstrate the idea of philosophical life. Plato uses a ship to help portraye the state and individuality. For the ship to properly run all aboard must do their jobs to the best of their ability. The Navigator, who is in charge of making sure that the captain has the proper course to get them where they need to go. The captain who is in power and in command over the ship. Plato indicates that trouble is on the way when the crew stops doing their jobs in…

One of the main differences that sets the body and mind apart are the qualities they hold. Descartes sees material bodies as spatial, material qualities, and public, and minds as nonspatial, distinctively mental qualities, and private (Cartesian Dualism). These terms to describe them are opposite of each other which then could explain how it is so hard to connect the mind and body as they are exact opposites. It is hard to see how two things are so different somehow work together. The body is…

Dialogue of a Man and the Soul” is a tale of a conversation between a man and his soul, regarding their viewpoints toward death. The man abides by the Egyptian traditions of viewing death as a positive gesture and wants to experience it now, whereas the soul is more focused on valuing the time on the earth. This intense conversation is a conflict between the internal thoughts of a man who is contemplating the idea of suicide; emphasizes the separation of himself and his soul based on the value…

the most satisfying to happiness. Life itself presents itself unique for everyone, people have their own experiences, values and morality from a unique upbringing, and a difference of intelligence. To assume there is uniform beauty, that humans can all satisfy the desires of erotic love by pursuing the form of beauty is ridiculous. Alcibiades cannot relate to Socrates because they are different. It is not in peoples control if they have the characteristics to follow the view of Socrates; but it…

dying, and they fear death least of all men.” (Phaedo 67e5-6). Socrates had stated that only a philosopher that is not afraid of death can possess the qualities of self-discipline and bravery. Self-discipline is very important to philosophers because it shows how much inner-strength they have and how they are in control of their mind and body. According to Socrates, you should not be afraid of death because the afterlife…

triangle since what makes a triangle a triangle doesn’t depend on the color but you can’t imagine a triangle without three sides because that is what makes it what it is. Similarly, you can imagine a mind with all different types of bodies but you can’t imagine…

Space is the way the foreground, middle ground, and the background are treated. For Sesshu, space helps depict the theme better by having negative space between Bodhidharma and Huike. In the foreground, Huike is in his own space and there is no overlapping. Next, in the middle ground, it is Bodhidharma but his space is enclosed by the cave, mimicking his posture. In the background, it is the cave where it overlaps with layers of the rocks sprawling across the page. On the left side, there is…

as authors, have asserted what they think to be the meaning of life. Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates all offer a unique outlook on the age old question of human existence. The authors of these books assert that the meaning of life lies in the legacy one leaves behind, not necessarily in the actions that they perform while on earth. To begin, one…

In The Republic, given that it is hard to define individual justice merely based upon individual level analysis, Plato expands the horizon to discover the notion of social justice in order to draw a connection with individual justice. He constructs the model of an ideal city and divides it into three distinct classes – the gold, the silver, and the bronze. Based on this categorization, he claims that social justice is “doing one’s own job, and not trying to do other people’s jobs for them”…

Socrates’ Responsibilities in Plato’s The Death and Trial of Socrates Socrates has made a lasting impression on readers for millennia. Being an outspoken mind that taught his methods to others, his legacy continued through his protégée, Plato, whose own works have also greatly influenced today’s modern ideology (Class Notes January 24th). In Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates is accused by Meletus of corrupting Athens’ young, creating new deities and not believing in the city’s…