Soul music

Dialogue of a Man and the Soul” is a tale of a conversation between a man and his soul, regarding their viewpoints toward death. The man abides by the Egyptian traditions of viewing death as a positive gesture and wants to experience it now, whereas the soul is more focused on valuing the time on the earth. This intense conversation is a conflict between the internal thoughts of a man who is contemplating the idea of suicide; emphasizes the separation of himself and his soul based on the value…

Erotic love can be categorized as “two kinds of value [and] two kinds of knowledge” () from Plato’s Symposium; it’s content raises the decision between an abstract way of pursuing erotic love and the traditional pursuit of a soulmate. Aristophanes and Alcibiades share a common pursuit of wholeness through the physical form. Aristophanes uses a tale of traditional Greek mythology which teaches humans were once whole, but as punishment humans were separated into two beings and given the life…

insofar as one cannot do without them? I think the true philosopher despises them.” (Phaedo 64d2-6, 64e3-5). This means that philosophers are only worried about the happiness of their soul. Since they are spacing themselves from the wants of the body they should see death as an even more celebrated detachment of soul and body. As stated by Socrates, true philosophers are preparing for death throughout all their lives. Philosophers in particular are unafraid to die because since they do devote…

of God” because of how nature’s laws are perfect even when we see them as having flaws. That they are a certain way because it is a small part of a big puzzle. He explains in the book about light, and how it ends up reflecting on earth. The rational soul is what Descartes said God put in our body that is different from all other living things. It is what enables us to reason. “For on examining the functions that could, as a consequence, be in this body, I found there precisely all those things…

the mind and body are already separated and mind more closely represents the soul. Fundamentally I believe these two would agree since both believe in a different source of knowledge although one predetermined and the other intellectual, the idea that there is something more than the senses is still shared. Also, the idea and want to separate from the body is also something very similar. Plato wants to separate the soul from the body since it is more of a restraint than anything else while…

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…