De La Soul

greater significance than the Forms of the other virtues (505a). He dismisses the two most common definitions – that the good itself is either pleasure or knowledge – as inadequate (505b-c). The Good, whatever it might be, is something which “every soul pursues” and fails to comprehend, resulting in an obscuration of the other lesser Forms (505e). Glaucon asks Socrates for an explanation of the Good similar to that given of other virtues like justice, but Socrates responds that he cannot do so…

Enlightenment The Renaissance movement marked the transition from intense catholic faith, to a period where religion, education and above all, the arts were greatly developed. With the vast knowledge of previous civilizations, the imagery of the Renaissance surpassed anything before its time. Initially, fear and darkness were represented in medieval times because the church was a major cultural factor. The School of Athens fresco and the last judgment relief, shows the huge shift from the…

Behavioral Change Project #3 Throughout the month of September and October I focused my behavioral change project on stretching every day over these two months, though at first it was just to start out as stretching every other day, but of course it evolved into what it is today. My goal may have not been one-hundred percent successful, but it did open the door for me to start a healthy habit. So after choosing a goal, I began to do research on basic stretches and beginner yoga techniques to…

Ghost are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. A ghost is thought of as a disembodied soul, a soul of a dead person inhabiting the world. One case of ghosts was with a Greek philosopher Athenodoros Cananites, who saw a haunted house and started watching it at night since he was interested in what was going on. He said one night an old man, bound at the feet and hands with rattling chains, appeared to him and beckoned…

Dualism is a view where the mind and body are two fundamentally different things. It’s the thought that the body is a pure physical state, and the mind is a pure mental/non-physical state. The body has an identified location, is led by the laws of nature, and it is open to the world to see. Whereas the mind has no location, isn’t led by the laws of nature, and is not public. Materialism is the view that individuals are nothing more than physical elements put together. For we all are made up of…

From the eyes of the outside world, Beacon Hills has always been the typical, generic, California suburb, but from the inside eyes of such families as the McCalls, Argents, Stilinskis, Hales, Martins, and more, the town is an enigma. The city is a hub for mysteriously unexplainable spooky incidents, at least in the eyes of the perpetually clueless adults. The teens in town know. They know that three local high schoolers, Scott McCall, Allison Argent, and Stiles Stilinski have brought a force so…

In The Great Divorce, Lewis depicts a man’s encounter of Heaven and Hell, where he interacts with and witnesses many different beings and opinions. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator is wandering around aimlessly through a miserable and dismal town. As he walks, he sees a bus stop and proceeds to get in line, not knowing where the bus would take him. The narrator quickly notices the hostility of the others in the line and observes the strife between the passengers as they struggle to…

Japanese believe that they are surrounded by spirits all the time”(footnote1). The existence of this inexplicable phenomena can arouse a fear in humankind because we have no way of understanding it. Many cultures around the world believe that if the soul of the dead…

Descartes and Gilbert Ryle are the two philosophers that discuss the subject matter of dualism, for that they will be the objective of this paper. In this paper, I will be discussing the metaphysical claims and ideals that Descartes presents to us in his meditations, to be more specific, I will be covering his second and sixth meditation. I will also be discussing about Ryle, who tackles the idea of dualism in his paper Descartes’ Myth, in which he goes in thorough depth of Descartes metaphysics…

432746 Purpose: This paper is an evaluation of Socrates’ argument from Phaedo for why philosophers should desire death. Socrates characterizes death as being the only avenue by which Philosophers may obtain wisdom. He does this by arguing that the body acts as a hindrance to one’s reason, and obscures it, making it impossible to know truths during one’s life. However, this argument unfairly characterizes the truthfulness of the senses, and therefore projects a futility of the philosopher’s…