Soul food

Despite all of Descartes’ past educational and travel experiences, he decides he must first study himself and his soul to start over. Descartes decides that he needs to discard all of his current positions, even if they may be right, because he did not trust what he was taught and what others and society taught and thought was the truth. Descartes explained how he discarded his current positions and started fresh, “…I learned not to believe anything too firmly of which I had been persuaded only…

The structure and rhyme-scheme in ‘The Last Judgement’ is changed according to which character is speaking, suggesting that the plays intends to make the audience identify and side with Jesus, God and the Good Souls against the Devils or Bad Souls, therefore ensuring that the audience are led to salvation. If we also visually analyse the two aforementioned verses, the Devil’s verse is far more visually unstable compared to Jesus’s structurally stable verse, which might influence…

virtue. He sets happiness as a goal / purpose that all people should try to achieve. Plato and Chuang Tzu give their ideas of what they believe is an ideal life and the means to achieve it. In Republic, Plato states that fulfilling the reasons of the soul and doing your duty as a citizen is an ideal life, and the ‘happiest’ of all is the Philosopher-Kings. Chuang Tzu states in Basic Writings that those who live their lives according to The Way is how a person can live to their fullest potential.…

1 Substance By Erik Welch Ohio Dominican University Philosophy 206 Section 1 - Thesis: Word Count: 220 The human person is composed of two parts, but only one substance. These two parts are namely the physical body and the immaterial soul (Aquinas & Pasnau, 2002). The human must be one substance because two separate substances could not conceivably function together as a single unit, in an effective and efficient manner, the way the human person does. Yet, while many would argue it…

Thomas in this sense agrees with the Averroists and states that “the intellect is what makes universality in things,” (Aquinas, III). This intellect is put into beings through the First Cause, which is God (Aquinas, III). Since all beings which have a soul have…

Whitman states that he is not just "the poet of the Body", (422) but "the poet of the Soul." (422) The complexity of the human soul and the way one chooses to view themselves in a theological context is paramount to Whitman’s writing. There is a certain catharsis in “Song of Myself”, in which the narrator creates his bond and relationship with God, and is overcome…

“ - Meno, 81c-d. Thus, follows the conclusion in Meno that education cannot teach knowledge, but rather aids a student to recall what the soul already knows, i.e. the unchangeable Knowledge of Forms. Even though we get an introduction to this theory of recollection in his first writing, you might say it’s a devotion or just a mere fascination… but if you’re familiar with his work you may…

prepared to die because of his practice of philosophy which causes him to suppress bodily desires, therefore, ready to leave his body behind for the afterlife. He does not have a fear of death, but looks forward to it, because of its effects on the soul. Despite accepting death and even looking forward for its occurrence, Socrates explains why it would not be fitting to commit suicide…

Memories of Empire, Mythologies of the Soul: Fado Performance and the Shaping of Saudade, she challenges this idea as she describes both the mind and the soul of the Portuguese people becoming collective unit within their music. By describing the history of fado and the development…

The Curious Mind of Hopsin Humans possess a powerful tool that many take for granted. That powerful tool is the brain. The brain performs many actions, allowing people to think, feel, and live. The rapper Hopsin gained a massive following because of his unique way of displaying his realizations about life. Unlike the stereotypical perception of rappers, Hopsin creates songs with a purpose. In his song “Ill Mind of Hopsin Seven” (2015), he offers his perspective on religion and humanity. This…