Soul

mirrors the individual soul; therefore, the State virtues mirror the virtues of the individual soul. Plato makes the distinction that the human soul actually has three parts, but that will be discussed later. In order to achieve the virtue moderation, or balance, the three parts of the soul must ultimately be in harmony with each…

describing characteristics such as gender, height, or nationality. The second way is abstract and uses mental properties to describe a person. When one refers to these mental properties, he is referring to the soul. Because personal identity can be defined by physical characteristics or by the soul, it is questionable whether the same person who exists now is the same person who will exist in the future. Gretchen Weirob, in John Perry’s A Dialogue in Personal Identity and Immortality, claims…

In the Meno and in the Phaedo, Socrates claims that the human soul exists before birth. In the Meno, Socrates makes this claim by claiming that learning is not the discovery of something new, but a recollection of something already known by the soul before we were born, but have only forgotten. Socrates’ claim that knowledge is recollection does not apply to all kinds of knowledge, only to the knowledge of abstract, unchanging entities (i.e., mathematics) that are not subject to the vagaries and…

saying that the soul does not depend on any material thing” (31). So at the very least Descartes puts forth the idea of the consciousness’ ability to exist without any material being. This brings up the aspect of consciousness, which is an important aspect to be considered, which Aristotle does not seem to directly address. For example, what is to be said of the person that exists and its within the descriptions of a self such as having the ability to move, sense, and an incorporeal soul, as…

He claims that the only knowledge can acquire is from us recollecting what are souls knew, of the Forms, before we were born. They do this by seeing something, such as two sticks that are almost equal, but are not exactly equal because we have knowledge of true equality in the Equality Form. He believes that the our souls are divine and that are bodys are human, and by them coexisting together the divine soul is confused and the knowledge we receive from the mortal body should not be trusted…

is to answer the question—what makes a person just? To tackle this inquiry, Plato’s character Socrates, from pages 136 to 138 goes into detail, arguing why there must be the three parts to an individual’s soul. In this portion of the text, Socrates argues that a just person—an individual’s soul that has harmony between the three areas of the psyche—rational, appetite, and spirited; therefore, the person exhibits wisdom, courage, and moderation. Ultimately in this section of “The Republic” Plato,…

Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley both agree upon that a monster originates from a contaminated soul. When one's soul begins to rot, a monster within emerges, for both of their monsters began as pure souls who were unaware of the evils of the world. When the soul gets contaminated by evil, it begins to transform into a monster. Dorian Gray’s inner monster begins to arise when Lord Henry inserts a fear in him (that if he sins too much it will start to show on his beautiful face and he cannot afford…

But if the spirit had nothing corporeal about it then why does it hurt when the body is hurt? It isn’t possible to say that only the body feels it because the soul is the thing that moves the body and causes senses in it. Therefore, one must accept that that the soul is of one nature with the body although the soul is more swift and has various other perfections. Furthermore, there are substances that are so finely divided that they can’t be held in by the bodies. Therefore, my argument…

believes that happiness comes from the goods of the soul, the goods of the soul come from virtue, he believes that living a virtuous life is the key to achieving happiness, a virtuous life is achieved through self, external goods such as wealth and happiness don’t play a large role in becoming truly happy or living a virtuous life. Happiness is a sufficiently completed good, it desires for…

The mortal soul must die because with the mortal comes a certain terribleness. Imagine a person receiving a temporary tattoo. The idea of temporary tattoos is so attractive because it can simply be washed away with soap and water. There is no real pondering on whether…