Soul

also known as On the Soul, is a dialogue that recalls the events right before the execution of Socrates. Socrates, who was charged for atheism and corrupting the youth, is the protagonist of the philosophical discussion. Socrates never wrote any of his ideas down, but it was his student Plato who wrote many of his philosophies in works. Some of Socrates’s ideas that are considered his most important are in the Phaedo, including his three arguments for the immortality of the soul and his argument…

through their beliefs of the events that follow death. While researching, I discovered that some religious beliefs are alike, some very different, and some intertwined with each other. The Catholic Church has a strong standing on what happens to souls once the body dies. Surprisingly, the religion of Islam has somewhat similar beliefs referring to “the Day of Judgment.” Finally, contrary to Catholicism and Islam, Hinduism…

In the book this is shown most vividly when Micromega questioned them about the nature of the soul. The peripatetic stated that "the soul is an actuality and rationality, in virtue of which is has the power to be what it is; as Aristotle expressly declare on page 633 of the louvre edition of his works." The Peripatetic then quoted the passage. The group then stated what they could they thought the soul was. Two of them, the giant and the mite, stated they did not understand Greek. The Sirian…

In high school, I read a short story called The Bet by Anton Chekhov. The story was about a young lawyer who made a bet with a banker that imprisonment for fifteen years was better than the death penalty. Like Socrates in Plato’s Crito the lawyer was trying to contest society’s beliefs. While in confinement the lawyer reads many books, whose topics ranged from languages to philosophy. After fifteen years of solitary confinement the lawyer rejects his prize money and defaults on the bet, just…

Sociology of Deviance The Division of the Mind, Soul & Body We do not live in a world of our own creation. We live in a world that is made up. In the words of James Baldwin an African American Historian, “People invent categories in order to feel safe.” (Dialogue 88-9) In other words people create associations to loosely say ‘I am not that’ or ‘I am this’, to feel a part of something and have a classification for social order. This notion applies to the body as well. People cannot simply…

In this paper, I will argue that Socrates’s remark at 30a-b of the Apology that acquiring the best possible state of the soul is the most important thing in life and argue as to why I agree with him. Specifically, I will underline the importance of rejecting false beliefs and obtaining true knowledge by doing philosophy, which are essential for having a pure soul as well as being superior to wealth. Furthermore, I will provide an example from the Euthyphro, demonstrating the importance of…

have only through contribution in these Forms. The Form of Life is a vital property of the soul, Socrates then says how it would be inconceivable to think of the soul as ever being anything but alive. Socrates says not only that the soul is immortal, but also that it anticipates certainties after its departure from the body at the time of death. Socrates concludes with this allegory of what happens to souls after passing. Then he takes a bath, says some last goodbyes, drinks the lethal hemlock,…

Cebes views are sort of aligned with much of Socrates thinking. Socrates goes on to reaffirm the thoughts of Cebes which is that he thinks that “the soul is immortal, but merely long-lived, and pre-existed somewhere for a prodigious period of time, enjoying a great measure of knowledge and activity” (Plato 169). Socrates does not have any real criticism towards Cebes, but offer Cebes to listen to his…

The Taming of the Private Tyrant: An Analysis of the Hydra, the Lion, and the Human as the Image of the Soul in The Republic by Plato This philosophical study will define the taming of the tyrant in The Republic by Plato. Socrates presents the image of the soul through the three symbolic identities of (1) the hydra, (2) the lion, and (3) the human to identify just and unjust behaviors. The hydra represents the lust of human ambition with its many heads; the lion represents the grandiosity of…

human intention. In this composition I am going to explore the sum and substance of Socrates theories in which he devoted his morality and conduct to, nonetheless, died teaching to his fellow Athens community. I will discuss his views on caring for the soul, his persuasion that self knowledge is a prerequisite to obtaining virtue, and that ultimately virtue is the foundation for…