Soul food

A person’s right to their body has been an issue often debated throughout human history. Some examples of body right struggles include body snatching, organ harvesting, legal kidnapping, and abortion. In a novel by Neal Shusterman entitled Unwind, the repurposing of human teenagers is decided by their parents or legal guardians. Unwind exemplifies how an individual’s “right” to their body is determined by others. Unwind exaggerates and expands the issues society faces today about body right…

Throughout his journey, the young man acquired beliefs that he retained and compounded in order to reach spiritual contentment. The river unleashed vestiges of Siddhartha’s past, awakening dormant parts of his soul. “With a distorted countenance he stared into the water…Then from the remote part of his soul, from the past of his tired life, he heard a sound…the holy Om…” (Page 72) The river reminded Siddhartha of a fundamental element of his life, which originated from his time as a Brahmin,…

will present Plato’s notions of the soul in the dialogue Phaedrus, in comparison to his notion of the soul in the Republic. His conceptions in each are similar on the grounds that he accepts the human soul as tripartite, with respects to the same parts that the soul is made up of. However, they differ in terms of the distinct analogies Plato uses to show how the three parts of the soul function individually, and together, as one unit. Plato asserts that the human soul is composite and tripartite…

responded "Because you are a beautiful lie, and I 'm a painful truth." Death has been alive for many years, centuries to be more exact, and he often wondered if there was more to his existence. He often wondered if he was to do more then just reap souls and end lives. He would look down to the earth, stare at the many people, the people who he knew were going to become subject to the fate brought on by Death himself. He pitied them, he pitied them all. They all lived in hopes to be happy one…

believes that happiness comes from the goods of the soul, the goods of the soul come from virtue, he believes that living a virtuous life is the key to achieving happiness, a virtuous life is achieved through self, external goods such as wealth and happiness don’t play a large role in becoming truly happy or living a virtuous life. Happiness is a sufficiently completed good, it desires for…

discussion on the nature of soul and its destiny after the death. It this conversation Socrates expresses his thoughts about the soul being trapped in the human body like in the prison, and his anticipation of the moment of death as a way to release the soul. (upon which the soul would be liberated) The motif of imprisonment and release pervades the entire dialog. Plato uses this motif as a main frame for Phaedo and he reveals it on different planes. The most obvious…

As the age of the renaissance was coming to an end, philosophers debated whether the conscious mind of a person was combined or separate from the person’s body. The first philosopher to talk about this dualism of mind and body was Descartes and he stated that they are both separate things. He claimed that, unlike the body, the mind is indivisible and has no physical extensions. In philosophy, this difference between the body and the mind is called Cartesian dualism. Another contemporary…

regard to the immortality of the soul and his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he believes in the soul and the afterlife. After…

just soul. In doing this, he creates the auxiliaries to guard the city, acting as soldiers in their youth and rules in their old age. He goes through their education process in Book VII, but leaves his ideas on poetry for Book X. In general, Socrates says that poetry should be banned from the Kallipolis since he thinks of it as a form of imitation. However, if someone were able to prove that poetry was beneficial, it would be allowed into the city. After this, Socrates explains why the soul is…

Socrates was one of the best philosophers that the world has ever seen. He was even put to death for some his teachings, and he accepted it. The also great Plato was one of Socrates’ students. Plato was also the author of the republic which holds his allegory of the cave philosophy. This allegory has been used in modern day, especially in movies. One great example of a movie that uses the allegory of the cave is Shutter Island. Plato's allegory of the cave begins with prisoners that are chained…