Soul food

In her novel, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf explores the thematic implications of time's continuous procession foreword. Woolf uses images of the sea as a symbolic depiction of the passage of time in relation to human lives. This pattern of images suggests that time takes on a number of different forms. Likes the waves, times sometimes appears repetitive and nearly motionless, but it also has a violent and entropic nature that calls attention to the impermanence of human life by threatening…

Fate: Discussing the Extent and Purpose of Free Will in Oedipus One of the most multisided philosophical debates can be sparked simply by asking "Are we free?" It's a question that we've been grappling for thousands of years. Sophocles uses Oedipus to ask questions about fate, free will, and how they can possibly exist together. In ancient Greek, the word for fate was Moira, defined by Homer as an impersonal power and sometimes makes its functions interchangeable with those of the Olympian gods.…

To Be Alive Is To Be Dead Have you ever met the opposite of a zombie? You probably have, a zombie is a being that is dead but quite alive. The opposite of that is a person that is alive but quite dead. Most humans operate like robots and don’t know what's going on around them, they haven't found their purpose or realization of the purpose of life. An epiphany can bring some enlightenment or free those who are alive but “dead”. In James Joyce Dubliners there are many examples of people being…

The bodily exercises are necessary because it is believed that the mortal body is only a cocoon TB166 and that the spirit needs a vessel „to lodge in“, because if the Taoist can not reach the level of transcendence were the spirit can ascend to heaven and his body dies beforehand, he can not reach immortality, thus the body needs to be preserved. ELT631 and is necessary to survive. ELT 622. Furthermore immortality could also be described as a transcendend state of mind, which due to meditation…

Jordan Mashal Professor Landers PHI 344 24 Septemeber 2017 Dualism Prompt 1: The central claim of substance dualism relies on the non identity of the mind and the body. Gotfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German philosopher, articulated a law that defines the notion of identity as: for any x and y, if x is identical to y, then x and y have all the same properties. Further, any two things that have all and only the same properties as one another are identical to each other. Finally, if there is…

In this paper, I will be doing a critical summary of the parts of the soul by Plato in The Republic. Plato argues that the soul has three parts. These three parts are the Spirited, the Calculating and the Desiring. The calculating part he says, is that which makes man think rationally while the desiring part is more irrational as it is guided by desires and pleasures rather than logic. The spirited part on the other hand, is that which represents an emotional reaction for what seems to be just,…

Is it better to live life as a happy fool, or as to have great wisdom at the expense of happiness? Do we think greatly of the knowledge we possess, or are we aware that despite the great sum of the knowledge we have, there is far more about which we are ignorant. These are among the questions we are forced to examine in reading Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the later Apology, and Voltaire’s Story of a Good Brahmin. In the allegory of the Cave, Plato poses a question which contrasts our…

Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans, put focus on simplicity, silence, obedience, and frequent self-examination, not unlike Socrates. One major belief of Pythagoras was the transfiguration of souls, which is a type of reincarnation. Pythagoras believed that after each death, the soul changes onto different animals, until it eventually is transfigured into a human’s body as it is being born. Because of this belief, Pythagoras believed it was morally wrong to eat other animals. In a…

Much of the world can be seen through the lenses of dualities. Phenomena such as dark and light, life and death, and day and night are important to understanding the world. Both parts exist in the same whole, and both are important for sustaining the world we live in. In the sacred Hindu text The Bhagavad-Gita, dualities are put on a unique pedestal, where they are both praised for being how the cosmos function and criticized for their tendency to lead to worldly obsession. A reflection of both…

Locke’s central thesis was that personal identity consists, not in sameness of substance, but in ‘sameness of consciousness’(Shoemaker on the Memory Theory). When something psychological like soul, memory and something immaterial etc. are assumed to account for persistence through time, which is the numerical identity between objects at different times(Seymour, Lecture 4/4), they are categorized as the non-physical accounts. In Locke’s view, consciousness was used as a synonym of memory…