All Souls' Day

Socrates compares the city to a ship. The shipowner, a symbol for the general public, is bigger and larger than all others on board however he is hard of hearing, shortsighted, and he has little knowledge of sailing and navigation. The sailors, or knack politicians, all fight over who should be captain of the ship, and resort to force and tricks to get the shipowner’s endorsement. However, all of these sailors do not know the craft of navigation and are simply power hungry. There is one true…

leave family, and everyone leaves a trail. There are many different ways death occurs. An individual could die of old age, naturally in their sleep, in a traumatic accident, suicide, disease, unfortunately within combat of war, and many other ways. We all have encountered someone dying at some point in our lives and even though we know it is bound to happen with each individual, it still hits us with disbelief and a strong coming of emotions. Each…

One such doctrine he is known for is about Immorality Of The Soul. (Hugen, 2009) Plato also becomes known because of the Socratic principle that wisdom is knowing what to do and what not to do. (Waldman, 2015) Plato focused on the nature of rhetoric, he related the human soul as seeking out noble and base nature. Plato described this soul seeking as a constant battle for oneself. (Dimock, 2005)Plato also taught in the form of rhetoric which is a form…

endeavour to explore the pageant’s intended effect on the audience, looking specifically at the significance of place and the pageant’s structure. The York Corpus Christi play is structured so that within one day the audience are told the story of Christianity from the creation of the world to judgement day, which, if viewed from an Aristotelian perspective, could be seen as having a tragic plot structure (a fall from good to bad). This tragic plot is seen in the fall from the joyful beginning…

It is the year 3000 and teleportation machines are rampant everywhere. They are the main mode of transportation in everyday life. All you have to do is step into the machine and a bright laser zaps through your body, and a ‘you’ is recreated in another machine. This new ‘you’ contains the exact same pattern of atoms and neural connections as the ‘old’ you, and the ‘old’ you is destroyed by the laser. The question to ask here is, is the ‘old’ you the same person as the ‘new’ you? The new ‘you’ is…

“The philosopher avoids suicide but welcomes death” (Plato, 2003, p. 120). Such is Socrates resolve when his own death approaches in The Last Days of Socrates. However, there is a difference between welcoming death and accepting it. While the former is a friendly greeting of sorts to something forthcoming and largely disagreeable, the latter is an acute feeling of indifference that indicates a keenness, if not apathy, for the blunt eradication of a life. And yet, both sentiments do not come…

Relationship to the Gospel of John, also agrees that the genre is hard to place he states “The question of genre, so far as the Gospel of Thomas is concerned, has been a bedeviled one on several fronts. In the first place, we suspect that nearly all scholars writing on Thomas today would agree that any firm determination of genre risks obscuring the historical reality, likely involving a complex evolution that reflects both oral and literary aspects…

Heaven [Plato 51]. But, Socrates does not believe his views are wrong or even punishable by death. The day of his trial, Socrates refutes his accuser 's accusations as well as he…

Dualism and Logical Behaviorism Each and every day, people connect with the world through various mental and physical involvements. Physical experiences are bodily actions, which include breathing, consuming, drinking, sleeping, talking, and walking to name a few. Mental experiences are actions of the mind, which include numerous emotions, needing, determining, questioning, recalling and the list keeps going. For years, philosophers have debated the understanding of these feelings and…

aesthetic harder to define. Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" is often read as an essay in criticism expounding a causal theory of beauty. "I contemplate the structure, and the sculpture causes to arise in me a particular sentiment of beauty. That is all," . Hume's reflective return to common sense keeps skepticism as a "Constituent" of "True philosophy" skepticism makes the first critical move when it explodes the commonsensical identification of feeling in the bystander and quality in the…