Soul food

Walt Whitman wrote a poem about making connections from the perspective of a spider and his soul. Using both literal and figurative observations he shows the conflicts each face and how both overcome their difficulties. Why would his soul struggle to make connections? How will observing a spider help with this challenge when both are so different? What has impelled the poet to have an observer watch the spider? What significance does writing in the literal and then the figurative tense have on…

a person. According to Plato, every person’s soul can be divided into three main parts. The first part is the rational part which seeks out the truth of the surrounding environment. Next comes the part of the soul that is responsible for the emotions that we feel; this part of the soul is the spirited part. The want to have honor and other feelings of contentment comes from within this spirited section of the soul. Finally, there is a part of the soul that is responsible for wanting everything…

In his speech Glaucon introduces us to the argument stating his beliefs on why do people created and follow justice. Most of his argument is based on the idea that “the badness of suffering it [injustice] far exceeds the goodness of doing it [justice]” (358 e). He believes that as a consequence of this fact people come to an agreement not to do injustice to avoid suffering it. The people that enter this agreement tend to have experienced both sides, doing injustice and receiving injustice or do…

Death?” Thesis: The idea of an immortal soul is a controversial topic since there is not enough evidence to really know what happen after we die. In this chapter, Rachels analyzes three main points of the evidence of a soul that is immortal which include near-death experiences, reincarnation, and psychic communication with the death. Summary: In the “Do We Survive Death” Rachels shows an important theory that relates to Socrates’ belief in an immortal soul. Socrates believed that being dead…

Raymond Smulyan proposes a very interesting concept regarding a drug that would separate, the soul or mind from the body. In his hypothetical drug, he states that drug would annihilate the soul completely but that the body would function exactly the same before. Meaning, that the person would act like if they sill had a soul. People would not be able to tell that the mind was separated from the body, only if they were told about it. This, to various philosophers of the mind would bring to many…

appearance of virtue. But if virtue is the supreme constituent of happiness, then one could not be happy without being (genuinely) virtuous, and one could not be virtuous without being happy. We have also seen that in the Republic, Plato divides the soul…

The mind, soul, and mental state are very complex elements that separate humans from other animals. Some will argue that the previously stated elements do not exist at all, and that everything a person feels or does can be explained by the brain. Currently, however, the brain cannot explain the sense of “I.” The sense of “I” being, the realization of oneself as a self, an individual with almost continuous thoughts and the ability to self reflect. To strengthen their argument, philosophers,…

been prepared for death your whole life; that it is the next experience and to be alive to see your death is not necessary because your soul is immortal. Lucretius’s believes that the soul doesn 't post to exist living with in the body, therefore it’s connected to the body, however in different parts. Going with the response to Socrates 's argument that the soul lives on, they would not agree. I believe that both Socrates and Lucretius have good arguments on how to be afraid of death. They…

and question reality to achieve philosophical thought. Additionally, the allegory of the cave teaches us that even though Socrates believes in the soul, if the world is in fact works similar to the allegory of the cave, souls do not exist. I believe these facts are significant because not only do we see a logical gap when…

question on whether some good of the soul constitutes man’s happiness. The objections that he is arguing against is that happiness consists in goods of the soul, happiness is in some good of man himself, and happiness belongs to man, but does not belong to body as shown in a previous article and therefore, happiness consists in goods of the soul. Aquinas answers by saying that the thing we try to get and the use is not important if it is material. Since the soul is not ultimate happiness, it…