Rubber Soul

seem fascinated with death at times. Along with this fascination there is also a fascination in the debate on whether or not humans have souls and if one day our soul will move on. When we die will our soul go to the after life? Or will it just move on to a new body and a new person with reincarnation? The idea of surviving our deaths through the means of a soul taking us to the afterlife is one that seems to give some people hope about their futures. Because of this there is many different…

The City and the Soul The Republic written by Plato in Socratic dialogue is one of the earliest text concerning the subject of justice and forms of government. In the text, Socrates and other Athenians debate on the true meaning of justice. After establishing the premises, Socrates concludes his arguments by praising aristocracy as the best form of government because it is ruled by rational philosopher kings who are just, and critique other forms of government, especially democracy because the…

Cebes views are sort of aligned with much of Socrates thinking. Socrates goes on to reaffirm the thoughts of Cebes which is that he thinks that “the soul is immortal, but merely long-lived, and pre-existed somewhere for a prodigious period of time, enjoying a great measure of knowledge and activity” (Plato 169). Socrates does not have any real criticism towards Cebes, but offer Cebes to listen to his…

The mind and body have been studied throughout time both in conjunction and individually. Ancient philosophies such as Plato’s (Silverman, 2013) viewed the body as temporary where as the mind was from another world therefore being able to transport. This means that the two were only united until the death or decay of the body and because the mind was from another world, it was the only thing capable of viewing universal truths. These philosophies are still being represented in 20th century…

Aristotle’s book, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is commenced with perhaps the utmost important segment of his novel: “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action as well as choice, is held to aim at some good” (Nic. Ethics, 1094a1-2). Thereafter, it becomes evident that the ‘good’ that Aristotle is referring to is not synonymous with the word “good’s” contemporarily conventional definition; instead, Aristotle’s use of ‘good’ seems to have an unreachable, yet vastly desirable…

structure of the soul. After considering the three distinct classes he has identified within the city, Socrates, attempts to link them to three distinct parts of the soul. "It is obvious that the same thing will not be willing to do or undergo opposites in the same part of itself, in relation to the same thing, at the same time"(436B). He uses an example of a person who is standing still but waving his arms.…

“The Allegory of The Cave” can be easily related to Plato's Theory of Forms, and both can be used to decipher the possibility of true human knowledge. The “Doctrine of 2 of 9 Forms” is one of Plato’s famous theories, which states that the physical world is not the real world and there is an ultimate world that exists beyond it (Macintosh). Plato says that there are two types of realms: the realm of corporeal things in the physical world and the realm of forms. First, the realm of corporeal…

Republic, a dialogue written by Plato in the fourth century B.C.E. to propose a series of ideas and theories that he and his master, Socrates, shared. This dialogue was eventually divided into ten individual sections that built off of each other. For example, book one of Republic inquires the question of what is justice, and book two comes back with the question what is more important, justice with the individual and the state. Each part of the dialogue has its own theme and questions; but what…

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…

In Protagoras, the main point of the argument is virtue, what is virtue, can it be taught or not, and how can it be used to measure what is good and what is bad. Socrates’ standpoint is that wisdom, temperance, courage, justice and piety, are all one of the same thing but Protagoras on the other believes that each of these are unique and have their own specific functions. Socrates gives the analogy of being like parts of a face, dissimilar to the whole of which they are parts and to each other,…