Soul

that the soul is immortal, and I agree with him that it is. He talks about the immortality of the soul in Phaedo and in the Republic. He has multiple arguments for how and why it is immortal, and every one of them makes sense to me. Plato’s writings on the soul are fascinating to me. All of the arguments he has to prove that the soul is immortal make me really think, and in some cases gave me words to describe something I had already thought about. When Plato writes about the soul in…

Everyone often has this idea of a soul mate being their one true love, the person they are supposed to be with forever. However, sometimes a soul mate can be multiple people. Like a puzzle, souls fit together to help create the bigger picture of life and humanity. Sometimes soul mates are people who enter another’s life for all different reasons; sometimes they are not romantic, but rather put into people’s lives in order to help them find themselves and become the people they need to be in…

In the book Soul by Soul, authored by Walter Johnson, Johnson explores the “Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market” by explaining how the slave holders did things and describes the day to day life, events and experiences of the slaves during the nineteenth century. The author divides the antebellum from the conflicting views of traders, slaveholders, and most of all slaves. Johnson writes what really happened without any remorse, he utilizes evidence such as; journals and narratives. Walter…

claim the soul makes us the kind of being that we are. For Descartes, being human is a combination of the body and the soul. The body and the soul are completely separate to Descartes. Aristotle believes the body and the soul function together. He thinks about the soul in three different parts. Both philosophers have similarities and differences in their theories and their thoughts regarding the soul and body. Descartes and Aristotle try to understand living things. They both claim the soul…

aspects to human beings, an empirical body and a soul which is not of the empirical world; this belief is the core of his theory about body and soul. Plato believed that our body, being empirical, used senses to gain knowledge which he saw as an unreliable guide to the truth. Because our body is driven and focussed more around pleasures, such as eating and sleeping, this gets in the way of philosophical and intellectual pursuits. He saw that our souls or ‘psyche’…

and death. All beings are subject to this cycle. However, Jains regard this cycle to be the continuation of the soul throughout life and death, whereas Theravada Buddhists deny even the existence of souls. Following from this belief system, Jains use their version of the soul to equate all nonhuman and human animals. Theravada Buddhists, on the other hand, consider nothing to have a soul, and therefore relate nonhuman and human entities through karma. This paper will discuss how Jains and…

gains an image of the soul and eternal life similar to the Catholic concept of eternal life. In the Phaedrus, Socrates says that when all divine souls “go to feast at the banquet”(Phaedrus, 247b), they ascend to a place beyond heaven to gaze upon a supreme divine being. Similarly, in his letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul speaks about The Mass as a copy of the heavenly sanctuary; the presence of God which is the Beatific…

and soul’, as if they are three independent parts of an overall puzzle that makes us exactly who we are. Dualist theories presented by Descartes and others present the ideas that two things makes us who we are; the soul and the mind/body. Physicalist theories presented by Smart and others present the idea that we are our brains; everything we are is a result of our brain processes and functionality. In this paper, I will be critiquing the soul account from a physicalist viewpoint. The soul…

argument for this conclusion and critically evaluate it. The argument appears to commit the fallacy of equivocation. But I think Socrates’ argument can be salvaged by very slightly reformulating it. Nevertheless, the argument tacitly assumes that the soul is immortal and survives the body’s death. Without a defense of this controversial…

regard to the immortality of the soul and his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he believes in the soul and the afterlife. After…