The Immortals

According to the Stoics, the death is a part of the natural rule of the universe and it is inevitable. The attachment to the ‘eternity’ of the life and denying the death come from inadequate understanding about the soul, I think, that human soul is immortal and could be alive even after the death. Unlike them, the Stoics admit the mortality of the soul by associating it with the body and could remove the attachment. So, from the Stoics, what we have to do is to concentrate on the things that we…

1. What was the reading about? What new information did it provide? C. Robert Mesle in the book Process-Relational Philosophy claims that God has gone through experiences of all sorts. Based on this argument, he further mentions Whitehead’s claims about the “primordial nature of God.” (PR 46, 343-51) This is to state that God has “no moral character.” In the book, Process Theology A Basic Introduction, C. Robert Mesle claims again that the freedom of the world has to deal with God and God’s…

Roman Catholic Christianity, Orthodox Christianity and Islam were the three religions involved in the Bosnian war. Roman Catholic and Orthodox, by sharing the same root of Christianity, have much more in common with each other than either does with Islam, however there are still some notable differences between them. Both are guided by the same scripture, the Holy Bible (including both the new and old Testaments), both agree that Jesus was son of Mary through immaculate conception and that…

understood more and more about his own mortality. After every fight he shows characteristics of how he matured and how he is still a foolish leader. While Beowulf learned about humility so did the class as readers. Beowulf who was thought of as an immortal warrior demonstrates how he discovers his own mortality. This shows readers that Beowulf is mortal. After this discovery it proves to readers that even the most skilled of warriors are not…

Gilgamesh was a good person in most versions and became a wiser character over time. He did good deeds for people like the building of Uruk. He learned that he could still be immortal without have to live forever because of the good deeds he did which gave him a lasting legacy that readers like the Mesopotamians remember him by which make him a hero. Van De Mieroop and Buccellati explore different aspects about Gilgamesh that…

tragedy attached to human life as well as his sense of personal weariness and suffering. The theme of death acts as a groundwork for the introduction of nightingale’s immortality. Though the speaker attains this by referring to the bird as being immortal, he realizes that as a human he cannot attain such and that is when he comes back to…

INTRODUCTION The renowned king of Uruk in Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh, comes from an age which had been wholly forgotten, until the last century archaeologists began uncovering the buried cities of the Middle East. Mesopotamia is one of the cradles of human civilization. The earliest cities in the world history appeared, about 3500 BC. “Mesopotamia” is a Greek word meaning, “Land between the Rivers”. The region is a vast, dry plain through which two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris flow.…

“Sacrifice sought the harmonization of the earthy and divine, so the victim must seem willing to offer its own life on behalf of the community; it must remain calm and be quickly and cleanly dispatched” (http://en.wikipedia.org). Sacrifices to the immortal gods had to be performed in daylight and in public. The gods required white, infertile victims of their own…

What is virtue? What does it mean to be a virtuous? How does one take the path of virtue and successfully win all the qualities human nature desire? However, definition of virtue is significant for everyone. According to the Oxford dictionary of philosophy, “virtue” is a quality considered morally good or desirable in a person (Oxford dictionary of English, 2014). These qualities include honesty, humble, heroic, kind and other charming traits in a human soul. There are approximately 4200…

The Odyssey, still today, is one of the most recognized epic poems of all times. An important theme evident throughout the epic poem is hospitality. Hospitality, the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, is very important to the gods and goddesses. It is just as important for the guest to honor the host as it is for the host to honor the guest. A violation of the expected treatment of a guest or host during ancient Greek times would often result in…