Soul Train

gruesome detail (pg 163). Wilde made sure to keep even his most morbid scenes eloquent though. He is able to relate scenes of evil without creating a horror story. Both The Picture of Dorian Gray and Lord of the Flies show the darkness in the human soul. In both stories, the characters feel the need to hide behind a mask to release the darkness inside. Jack’s clan of boys in Lord of the Flies puts war paint on before a kill to rid themselves of the humanity and morals. Dorian Gray too is…

In Plato’s Symposium the reader is offered many insights on the definition of love. Diotima’s take on love was the most interesting because of her take on love being a spirit, and the ladder of love Diotima’s first objective was establishing that love is a middle ground, not stratified to one spectrum of good or bad. “Watch your tongue,” she exclaims at Socrates, “do you really think that if a thing is not beautiful, it has to be ugly,” (Plato, Symposium, 46). A flaw often found in human…

driver has charge of a pair; secondly, one of them he finds noble and good, and of similar stock, whole the other is of the opposite stock, and opposite in its nature…” (Plato 246b2-4). As a metaphor of the soul, the soul must manage reason, the white horse, with desire, the black horse. The soul must be diligent when steering both horses because the black horse is able to overpower the white horse. To describe the consequences mismanaging the black horse, Socrates states, “Some mischance is…

Animals Have Souls Do animals have souls? Do people have souls? There are many differing definitions for the soul, and how can you begin to answer any of these questions without a chosen definition? Clarence Darrow’s “The Myth Of the Soul” and my secondary sources will conclude that yes, animals do have souls, and in fact, to think that they do not is much harder to believe. Jesus and Buddha praised vegetarianism because of a humans connectedness to all life (Jones-Hunt). Before eating meat…

that each person has a soul made up of three parts, all of which correspond with the three classes in society. “Is there one element in us for learning, another for feeling spirited, and yet a third for our desire for the pleasures of food, sex, and things like that?” (Plato, 436 a-b). The rational part of the soul is responsible for seeking truth, as well as our individual philosophical inclinations and relates to the guardian class, whereas the spirited part of the soul corresponds to the…

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…

rituals that were fitting to his cultures lay concepts of illness. In the film the Shaman was not feeling well so he decided to a special ceremony to see if his and families souls have wondered off, in American culture this ceremony is probably not known of but in the Hmong culture this ceremony is preformed to see if the their soul has gone away. Every culture has their own ways of looking at things and dealing with…

The most famous of these damned souls is named Hunter Homan, who often will leave all his work to be completed at the very last second as well as spend countless hours on his computer instead of with his friends and family . The punishment for the souls and Mr. Homan is being forced to run in a circle for eternity as demons hit them with pitchforks while sitting on beds and chairs that the souls of this circle desire to rest on. The Punishment gives these souls no rest or no chance to resort…

In Phaedo, Simmias believes that the soul is similar to the harmony made from an instrument. Socrates points out two statements that make Simmias rethink his views on the soul and the body. As Socrates turns down Simmias 's theory of the soul, not only is he able to convince Simmias, he is also able to make great arguments that support his ideas on how the soul cannot be relatable to the attunement of an instrument. Simmias 's opinion on the soul is that the harmony that is produced by an…

delights and torments that grants one to judge what seems, by all accounts, to be most truly awesome or anguishing. This dynamic state of the soul is the condition in which each one of the powers of the soul are crushing ceaselessly in show. Achieving extraordinary character is a technique of tending to without end the issues that hinder the full ampleness of the soul. Aristotle 's discussion of decision for praising inclination when so much that is basic in life depends on upon openness and…