Waking Life

In the essay, Phaedo, Plato gives us Socrates’s idea of the life of a philosopher, in what is his final hours before he drinks the poison. This takes place a couple of days after Crito. The setting is in Socrates’s cell, his wife and children are with him, but leave before he drinks the poison. Also in the cell with him is Phaedo, Crito, Cimmias and Cebes, to ask the question, “why is Socrates egger to drink the poison?” He answers with, to study philosophy is to prepare yourself for death (64a)…

Click: Life’s Mirror Reflection Imagine yourself waking up in a hospital bed recovering from an artery bursting. The cold feeling of inevitable death and loneliness course through your body as you wake. You ponder the story you have written that is your life and can’t help but to notice that it seems empty. You feel your heart shrink and feel colder after every memory you recollect. Memories of disinterest towards your family, losing your wife to another man, and losing your father after…

recollection supports the theory of perpetual life by saying that everybody has knowledge from past lives, and the theory of perpetual life supports the theory of recollection because it states that the soul lives on after the body dies. The theory of perpetual life also supports the master and subject theory by saying that the human body dies but the soul moves on and doesn’t die. The master and subject theory supports the theory of perpetual life by saying that the soul is like the divine…

As Paul Fairfield mentioned in his book Death and Life, “Confronting one’s personal mortality and grieving the loss of another can either be carried out as tasks that engage fully our capacities of introspection, understanding, sympathy, and the choice, or they can be evaded as so much as unpleasantness…

mutations and creatures drove him to madness. Written by E. B. Hudspeth, and published by Quirk Books in 2013, this book tells in detail what his life was like starting from early childhood and includes many of his quotes and diary entries that express his beliefs. This book contains "The Life and Writings of Dr. Spencer Black" which contains the details of his life, as well as "The Codex Extinct Animalia" which contains detailed illustrations, descriptions, legends, and even the anatomy, of the…

One ending, as a dynamic in my personal life, that I have been thinking about, is what to do when I graduate Sonoma State. It is an ending in my life that I have little control over, and something that I personally consider a large positive life transformation. It could be that each crypt represents the ending of my life as I now know it, but also the beginning of a new life. It is impossible not to separate the sarcophagus in my dreams from the fact that…

working in his mind that is what worries Razumikhin;“You know, he has something on his mind!…Something immovable, weighing him down...That is decidedly what I am very much afraid of.” (130).Tolstoy mentions that Raskolinkov was “not living in real life, rather he was acting like a machine” (487). He is constantly torn between his thoughts and reality, so feeling frustrated of this he settles to kill her as an act of his asseriveness over reality, a way to release an inner…

Artificial Life “Spring” by Mary Oliver (U.S., born 1935) reflects a deep understanding of the natural world, and how it is changing drastically as the years go on. (In) Oliver was born in the quaint town of Maple heights, Ohio, and today she lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She started writing poetry when she was only 14, and many of her well known poems connect nature to the human world. (Ds) The setting of “Spring” is, like most of her poems, in nature where there are many mountains, and…

Wiseman wrote it due to health scares in their families. It’s a common misconception that individuals may never be faced with near life death situations. However, at any given moment one’s life can be taken short, sometimes knowing death will come, or never expecting death will affect one. Cystic fibrosis is a one of the leading causes of death in the US. Imagine waking up every morning struggling to breathe, essentially dying with every breath. Cystic fibrosis is very deadly, many people around…

other cases even worse like committing suicide. In the Modernist short story, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka portrays a character who is treated like a bug in his day to day life and continued to be treated this way into his actual physical transformation, which lead him to make a decision that ended his life. Gregor’s life before his transformation was very similar to one of a bug, no one cared about his human needs, and never took the time to pay attention to them. When Mr.Samsa’s business…