Soul food

Famous philosopher, Plato, once said, “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil”. What makes one evil? One’s harmful actions? Lack of empathy? Going against other’s morals? All acts of cruelty have one thing in common: ignorance. Ignorance of accepting others ideas. In the short stories, “The Lottery”, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, evil characters ignored the protagonists’ reasoning to stay alive. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, on a sunny…

In Plato, Republic, Book VII, the core of the book revolves around justice and its implications from both an individual and collective perspective. Plato does not have Socrates argue that justice requires getting everyone out of the cave because in actuality, there are two parts to justice and the cave: the truth and the false. According to Plato, people often live in illusion. Illusions appeal to sensible people and their senses whereas reality, does not function with reason alone, it includes…

A theory written by Plato, ‘The Allegory of The Cave’ explains the concern of human perception. Plato differentiates between people who mistake sensory knowledge for the truth and people who really do see the truth. The material world is just partial pictures of true images. Relying on physical senses alone, makes you “effectively blind”, according to Socrates. The world we see is a reflection of what the world represents, not a very accurate representation. Plato claimed that, “Knowledge…

The soul is an important issue present in the Platonic texts The Meno and Phaedrus; each one has similarities and differences from each other, which are going to be present in the following paper. I’ll develop the text by explaining how both texts have views on the conception of the soul, the conception of the soul seems to be based on the same foundation yet it differs in certain key ways. Looking at certain similarities, first I’m going to explain how in both texts the soul is immortal, then I…

The Rig-Veda, gives an insight into the origin of Yama (यम, itrans: yama) , a personification of death. Like other Devas, Death is also a natural force or phenomenon. Rig Veda describes Yama and Yami, who were the first two mortals to be born they were twins. According to Monier Williams Sanskrit Dictionary the original meaning of the male Vedic name Yama is twin. Symbolically death and life are twins. The birth of a being automatically decides the death of that mortal sometime in future.…

and death. All beings are subject to this cycle. However, Jains regard this cycle to be the continuation of the soul throughout life and death, whereas Theravada Buddhists deny even the existence of souls. Following from this belief system, Jains use their version of the soul to equate all nonhuman and human animals. Theravada Buddhists, on the other hand, consider nothing to have a soul, and therefore relate nonhuman and human entities through karma. This paper will discuss how Jains and…

One of the most important physical properties of molecules is their chirality, or lack thereof which is known as achirality. Chirality is defined as the ability of a molecule to exist in two no superimposable images called enantiomers. This means that achirality is the opposite, in which molecule is superimposable on its mirror image. When two molecules are related in the fact that they are stereoisomers of each other, but are not mirror images. In nature chiral molecules do not exist in their…

process what your mind is doing. Your mind is thinking, as it holds feelings, emotions, secrets, and personal thoughts. Your mind and brain are connected and placed in your head as the most important elements of your body. Your mind is in tune with your soul, whereas your brain is in tune with your body's functions. To keep a healthy mind, you must obtain your personal identity. Your personal identity overall describes your sense of “self.” Self is your consciousness, and our way of holding each…

Rene Descartes proposes a variant of substance dualism that maintains the equal and distinct existence of physical and mental substances. Descartes (1641) discusses that bodies are physical substances because they extend outward and occupy spatial regions while the human mind is a mental substance because it cannot extend through space (P.165). Descartes also notes fundamental differences on their activities; the human body is passive because it cannot think while the mind can handle complex…

which is more like facing personal fears or struggling to reach a goal which is also self-exhausting, as a person may not want to repeat that experience. However, Fischer says that if humans found enough of the repeatable actions such as a favorite food or activity and if we spread those out varying it a little then there would be no end to its fascinating…