Soul food

Space is the way the foreground, middle ground, and the background are treated. For Sesshu, space helps depict the theme better by having negative space between Bodhidharma and Huike. In the foreground, Huike is in his own space and there is no overlapping. Next, in the middle ground, it is Bodhidharma but his space is enclosed by the cave, mimicking his posture. In the background, it is the cave where it overlaps with layers of the rocks sprawling across the page. On the left side, there is…

Ever since the beginning of mankind, humans have pondered the purpose of their existence. Throughout history, a variety of philosophers, as well as authors, have asserted what they think to be the meaning of life. Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin, and Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates all offer a unique outlook on the age old question of human existence. The authors of these books assert…

In The Republic, given that it is hard to define individual justice merely based upon individual level analysis, Plato expands the horizon to discover the notion of social justice in order to draw a connection with individual justice. He constructs the model of an ideal city and divides it into three distinct classes – the gold, the silver, and the bronze. Based on this categorization, he claims that social justice is “doing one’s own job, and not trying to do other people’s jobs for them”…

Socrates’ Responsibilities in Plato’s The Death and Trial of Socrates Socrates has made a lasting impression on readers for millennia. Being an outspoken mind that taught his methods to others, his legacy continued through his protégée, Plato, whose own works have also greatly influenced today’s modern ideology (Class Notes January 24th). In Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates, Socrates is accused by Meletus of corrupting Athens’ young, creating new deities and not believing in the city’s…

INTRODUCTION: The following are argument analysis of arguments that mainly comprises the “Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous” and “Treatise concerning the principle of Human Knowledge” both written by George Berkley , who is an Irish philosopher and coined the philosophical concept called “immaterialism” which denies that materials exist in the world and are the fundamental building blocks of reality , indeed it says that it is the ideas which really exist in the minds of the…

Louis Groarke in his book, Moral Reasoning: Rediscovering the Ethical Tradition, has a chapter based solely on Socrates and his student Plato called Socrates and Plato. Chapter four: Socrates and Plato are based really based on Plato’s work. Socrates, similar to Jesus, never wrote or documented anything as far as we currently know, and so we rely mostly on Plato’s text to determine who Socrates was. The titled of the chapter is Socrates and Plato, though all we really understand is who Plato was…

People should be given the right to absolute liberty when it come to self regarding conduct. This is one of the few freedoms that people have left. Almost Every other aspect of our lives is controlled in some way or another. Governments and other powers are trying to intervene and dictate what is allowable in self regarding conduct, but we as a people must rise up and protest. In this paper Self regarding liberty, and social domain will be defined. Then examples of self regarding liberty will be…

virtue, for one can be virtuous without certain knowledge but it seems it would be necessary have wisdom. However Plato does understand the importance of these characters as he explains to Meno in the following way: “Consider whichever [quality of the soul]...you believe not to be knowledge but different from it; do they not at times harm us, at other times benefit us? Courage for example, when it is not wisdom but like a kind of…

Plato’s Republic seeks to answer what the essence of justice is and how it can be enacted both within a city and self. Focusing on the concept of justice within the city, what follows will argue that according to Plato philosophers make the best suited to as they are the only people that possess true knowledge. He believes that no city can be just unless it is ruled by a philosopher as justice itself has an ideal form, therefore making philosophical knowledge necessary to truly understand it. As…

proposition “justice in the soul is a matter of each part performing its own function”. The next stage, in both dialogues, begins when a second proposition is examined, the truth of which is necessary for the truth of the original candidate proposition. In the Meno, this new proposition is that virtue is knowledge and is explicitly called a hypothesis (καὶ συγχώρησον ἐξ ὑποθέσεως αὐτὸ σκοπεῖσθαι, εἴτε διδακτόν ἐστιν εἴτε ὁπωσοῦν. Meno 86e) while in the Republic it is that the soul has the same…