Soul food

Even the Stoutest Souls can be Broken: An Interpretation of Hamlet It is clear that William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, is meant to present perhaps the greatest and undeniable truth of mankind, even the best of us can fall into corruption. Hamlet is a vivid description of one’s descent into madness. It begins by detailing the seed of anyone’s separation from goodness or faith, the death of a beloved family member. From that point on the seed only grows within Hamlet from the number of events…

A human facing back towards a giant hole in the ground of a cave of a mountain titled Mt.Ebott.They took a deep breath hesitating, clutching their pale sweater"....hh.." Their breath wavering quietly, body numb not sure if this was really the right answer to escape all this.Tears form in the corner of their eyes streaming down the cheeks to fall off the chin , thinking and thinking making them light headed. They thought about all the reasons why they shouldn't do this but those thoughts were…

In the game Fallout: New Vegas, there is a built-in morality system called karma. If the player does “good” actions such as helping people, being generous, and killing “evil” characters, they would gain positive karma. On the other hand, if they stole, murdered innocent and “good” characters, and just did “bad” or “evil” things, they would gain negative karma. Most of the quests in the game reward the player with either positive or negative karma depending on the actions taken in completing the…

According to Maimonides, a "physician of the soul" is when therapy and ethics meet to prescribe "a temporary ethic to enable the patient to acquire moral virtue" (299). These "wise men," who are "physicians of the soul" are there to balance the extreme character traits of the soul that are sick. When a person shows bad actions they must be cured by the soul doctor "to acquire moral virtue" (298). It is like when goes to a "physician of the body" with an infection, the doctor must prescribe…

are the actual object, when the fire goes out the ball will still be there even though the shadow will no longer be there. Plato believes that the human soul is a form and that humans in the universe are simply a shadow on the wall. I share all of this because Plato believes that you cannot learn something new, you just remember it. Since your soul is an eternal form and you are a shadow, then you know everything, it is just a matter of remembering it all. Nikulin puts it pretty well when he…

and that the angles and demons and travel back and forth from heaven/hell to Earth. Even some of them believe in this spiritual world before birth, which is mind blowing because there are no bodies there and it is like some form of punishment for a soul to be put in a body. It is intriguing because no one can be one hundred percent sure on what heaven and hell actually are. It is one big mystery that everyone will find out when they die, but they will only find out the truth about heaven or…

greater significance than the Forms of the other virtues (505a). He dismisses the two most common definitions – that the good itself is either pleasure or knowledge – as inadequate (505b-c). The Good, whatever it might be, is something which “every soul pursues” and fails to comprehend, resulting in an obscuration of the other lesser Forms (505e). Glaucon asks Socrates for an explanation of the Good similar to that given of other virtues like justice, but Socrates responds that he cannot do so…

Enlightenment The Renaissance movement marked the transition from intense catholic faith, to a period where religion, education and above all, the arts were greatly developed. With the vast knowledge of previous civilizations, the imagery of the Renaissance surpassed anything before its time. Initially, fear and darkness were represented in medieval times because the church was a major cultural factor. The School of Athens fresco and the last judgment relief, shows the huge shift from the…

Behavioral Change Project #3 Throughout the month of September and October I focused my behavioral change project on stretching every day over these two months, though at first it was just to start out as stretching every other day, but of course it evolved into what it is today. My goal may have not been one-hundred percent successful, but it did open the door for me to start a healthy habit. So after choosing a goal, I began to do research on basic stretches and beginner yoga techniques to…

Ghost are an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image. A ghost is thought of as a disembodied soul, a soul of a dead person inhabiting the world. One case of ghosts was with a Greek philosopher Athenodoros Cananites, who saw a haunted house and started watching it at night since he was interested in what was going on. He said one night an old man, bound at the feet and hands with rattling chains, appeared to him and beckoned…