Immortality

uncertainty. Fundamentally, a soldier is their own monument, whether their state be dust or bone. Frost, Owen and Brooks delve into this concept through their poems. They discuss that through pain and hardship the soldier may suffer, unlocks their immortality to entirety. Brooks and Owen contrast heavily due to opposing perspectives, however intern reveal an identical closure. This result is explored further in “A Soldier”, which surpasses the hardships and spotlights “after death”. The concept…

daughters of the air; they have the possibility of achieving an immortal life if they attain the quest imposes by the gods which are to do good deeds for 300 years. It is similar to the second level of spirituality as they both have a chance to get immortality. The last spiritual level is the heaven where all immortal souls resides, the heaven is said to be the place closer to the god and only the good people are chosen to be part of it . Hence, the originality and complexity of the works of…

I am going to argue that the Doctrine of Recollection resolves the Paradox that Meno poses to Socrates. The Meno’s paradox arises when Meno and Socrates are inquiring into what virtue is. It goes as follows, how will one know that they have correctly identified the object of their inquiry if they do not know the object they are inquiring about? On the other hand, if you know what you are inquiring about then you need not inquire, because you already know. Inquiry seems to be an impossibility or…

death can be frightening topic for many, but not for Emily Dickinson. Emily’s tone and attitude in this poem is notwithstanding and carefree as she dares to challenge the death. In this poem, Emily completes her thought of her perspective of time, immortality, life, negative, aseity, and death itself. This poem contains six stanzas and each stanza contains 4 lines. The first stanza, the first line in the poem presupposes an argument and a counterargument. Dickinson raises a question straightaway…

The Deathless Soul in Plato’s Phaedo In his dialogue, the Phaedo, Plato offers justification for the immortality of the soul. Plato does this through an argument many have referred to as the “final argument.” I will explicitly make sure that the arguments are clearly expressed and explained. First, I will discuss some of the key features of the previous three arguments in the Phaedo. Secondly, the previous three arguments will lead into the ontological presuppositions that Plato relies on for…

Phaedo, a dialogue written by Plato, is about Socrates last day as he is surrounded by friends and pondering suicide and whether it is right or wrong. The dialogue is between Echecrates and Phaedo, where Echecrates is questioning Phaedo about how Socrates final hours went down, inquiring about what his final thought where, as he pays very close attention to details being told by Phaedo. “Then he, or any man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to die, though he will not take his own…

1. Write a question about Haze and answer it using a quote from the book. Why is Haze so strongly opposed to being a preacher? Haze notes that he “had all the time he could want to study his soul in and assure himself that it was not there” (18). During the war, Haze felt like his faith had abandoned him and consequently he lost his belief. Something changed in Haze causing him to become bitter and give up his desire of becoming a preacher. As a result, he rejects traditional religious beliefs.…

After Socrates finishes his argument that the soul is like the Forms and therefore is immortal, Simmias interrupts and tries to disprove Socrates’ argument. He begins by comparing Socrates’ argument to a harmony in relation to its instrument (85e-86a). Simmias suggests that a harmony is to a soul as a lyre is to the body. He reasons that, if we accept Socrates’ line of argument, the harmony must not only preexist the lyre but also live on after it is destroyed. I find this reasoning to have one…

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story of how two best friends are brought together to balance each other’s strengths and weaknesses. The story focuses on the main theme friendship and the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. In the epic, the theme of friendship is the core to the story. The powerful friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu is one of the most important factors from beginning to end of the story. At the beginning of the epic, Gilgamesh is a civilized character of excessive pride.…

Through their works, American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson comment on the mysteries of life and the end result of death. In a combination between the words “death” and “brain,” in the poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” and “The Brain – Is Wider Than The Sky,” Dickinson attempts to show the reader the numerous possibilities of life. Walt Whitman, in the poems “Song of Myself,” and “Leaves of Grass”, tries to combine the words death and grass in an attempt to explain how to cope…