Immortal in Death

would dream of having. These characters are the main subjects of Book XI, where Virgil employs a unique method by pairing Pallas’ funeral with the telling of Camilla and her battle, and finally, ending the book with her death. Camilla, a female warrior, and Pallas, Aeneas’ “foster” son, fight for different sides in the…

What is adventure? A reexamination The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the best Epic’s every written. Gilgamesh was a king with a lot of power. Before the story he was basically a tyrant to all his people. He was not a good king at the time before this Epic took place. Although plenty of things made him into a great man later in the story. I believe the most important segments of Gilgamesh is that it showed death can be a good thing in the early meeting with Enkidu, the…

The concept of death has no specific meaning. There is no way to know about it. Although the finds of the death process has an edge on the rest of them. No one will think about death, and it all starts and ends and thinking about it from a position of ignorance of a person. The concept of death has no content. Without any images will be generated in our minds to think about death. The concept of death is a use for life, while death itself has no use for anything. All we can say about death can…

Within every person, there is an immortal soul. Immortal meaning that after death the soul continues to live on. During the paper, I will explain Plato’s view towards the immortality of the soul, which argument of Plato’s is the strongest to defending his claim, then I will talk about three arguments as to why I believe there is an immortal soul within each human being. Finally, I will look back at Plato’s strongest argument from the first section and give my personal take on his belief as to…

some of us human beings believe that there is life after death. That is because of our religion and faith that believes that there is an afterlife. The persons that believe in the afterlife are the persons in the Eastern part of the globe. These people are faithful, and some are the Chinese and Indians. Most of the Filipinos…

Plato writes that Socrates believes that the soul is immortal, and I agree with him that it is. He talks about the immortality of the soul in Phaedo and in the Republic. He has multiple arguments for how and why it is immortal, and every one of them makes sense to me. Plato’s writings on the soul are fascinating to me. All of the arguments he has to prove that the soul is immortal make me really think, and in some cases gave me words to describe something I had already thought about. When…

of Gilgamesh, explores the relationship between death and immortalization through the series of stories that Gilgamesh, King of Mesopotamia experiences. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh meets Enkidu, a powerful half man half beast hybrid whom is his equal in strength. Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends and one day, Gilgamesh mentions a demon monster named Humbaba whom “dwells in the forest” and suggests to Enkidu “you and I shall kill him and wipe out something evil from the land”…

For every human being created, there is an ultimate end which is death apart from some special cases recorded in the Holy Books. Basically, the idea of death is regarded as the main rite of passage in the modern and the traditional society. It was regarded to be the ultimate end of a human being. The human body is mortal and so it draws a conclusion that every human being is to die. The human body dies because it’s made up of tissues which after long time whatever the duration it may take, must…

“Phaedo” using his predecessor Socrates as the voice of his arguments. He covers the important question of whether the “soul” continues after death whilst using various arguments to reiterate his theory. Socrates states that the soul is immortal, hence it does exist both before and…

individual dies, he or she is put to what is considered a deep sleep. In Plato’s and Socrates’ view of the afterlife, death is good and peaceful and should not be something to be afraid of. Socrates eventually is put to death because he was challenging many people’s beliefs of the afterlife. Socrates was also challenging the presence of God which then led to the people wanting him to be put to death. Plato and Socrates believed that dying is a good thing because once they enter the…