De La Soul

Plato looked at the soul in parts. Plato’s notion of the soul was with motives. The question then arises for the soul to have basic human motives. These motives, which can be qualitatively different from one another, usually have pleasure as the soul motive. Words like love and hate are just degrees to these motives. For Plato, he only believed in the rulers, guardians, and business. Plato thought that the individuals psych should mirror the political. The business class being the largest, was…

world). On the other hand, the Yanomami believed that the universe was constructed into four layers: The uppermost layer (contains nothing, but it had ancient beings who brought down to the lower layers), the second layer is the sky (which is the souls of the dead and looks similar to earth), the third layer is the earth, and the fourth layer is the underworld. Furthermore, both the Tiwi and the Yanomami have different ceremonies. The Tiwi’s ceremony is called the Kulama. The Kulama is a yam…

Everyman finally acknowledges God and cries out to Him to have mercy upon him. Everyman finally realizes that he cannot escape Death and he is going to leave this world. Yet Death still provides Everyman with an escape. Death hints that Everyman can still be saved regardless of his obsession with earthly things. The author continues to imply that Death can occur anytime when you least expect it. Further implying that Everyman, i.e. everyone on Earth, should be prepared when that time…

The soul has three parts; the appetitive part, spirited part and rational part. The souls must correspond to the natural job of their class. Therefore justice is the same in the soul as it is in the state. “The just man will not be any different from the just city” (435b). The guardians understand harmony and balance and apply their knowledge from extensive education and training to a just society. Only the philosophers have all three parts of the soul. Because they have wisdom…

Plato 's "The Apology" and "The Allegory of the Cave" essentially provide the same message through different mediums -- the self and the soul is taken care of through the pursuit of truth, and self-criticism and self-inquiry help keep the soul in check, ensuring that the soul is being taken care of. From these two pieces, the "care" for our "soul" or our "self" means that people are obliged to become more meaningful. Caring for the self involves the highest level of morality and knowledge to the…

The existence of a soul and its connection to the human body is debated often in metaphysics, since its substance could possibly prove or disclaim the existence of life after the body dies. If the soul exists, and is unrelated to the body, then it may possibly continue on without a corporeal form. If the soul is a byproduct of the body, than it is just as mortal, and will cease to exist when the heart stops. It is my belief that the soul is the result of thought, and is unconnected to the human…

“Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror” by John Ashbery is a work of convoluted reflections engaging Renaissance painter Parmigiano, his painting “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror”, Ashbery himself, and the soul. The poem’s source of inspiration is a physical piece of art, suggesting the poem belongs in the ekphrasis tradition. Immediate tension arises as the painting and the poem belong to vastly different traditions. The technique of ekphrasis in a postmodern tradition has challenged scholars as it…

Bible, which state “so God created man in the divine image, in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.” (New International Version, Genesis 1.27) Blake’s songs were written to shed light on the two opposing states of the human soul, primarily as one of innocence that believes man was created in the physical and virtuous image of God, “For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love/Is God,…

For in the Holy word of God is reads, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” (Matthew 16:26 ESV) It is the one thing that God cares about and craves to have because He can offer eternal life and the life of a prince because that is what we are. Temptation disrupts that, yet it cannot change our worth in front of our Lord’s…

chloride, the mind comes from brain processes (King, Viney, & Woody, 2013, p. 31). The interactions of the brain, mind, and soul described above are reminiscent of interactionism. Interactionism maintains that each order of reality- the brain and the mind- is real and reciprocally stimulates the other (King, Viney, & Woody, 2013, p. 30). Finally, the solution suggests the soul as an additional reality separate from the brain and the mind. The soul’s ability to influence the brain and mind is…