Soul Train

Throughout history, philosophers have been setting up plenty of theories to determine if the mind and the body are one. Substance dualism is one of those theories. Specifically, Descartes is a dualist who brings up the indivisibility argument about the mind that has been trusted until science is well developed. Even though Descartes’ argument is well-accepted, it is not strongly supported by factual evidence, and it is easily defeated by a simple question, which is how the mind and the body…

A person’s right to their body has been an issue often debated throughout human history. Some examples of body right struggles include body snatching, organ harvesting, legal kidnapping, and abortion. In a novel by Neal Shusterman entitled Unwind, the repurposing of human teenagers is decided by their parents or legal guardians. Unwind exemplifies how an individual’s “right” to their body is determined by others. Unwind exaggerates and expands the issues society faces today about body right…

Throughout his journey, the young man acquired beliefs that he retained and compounded in order to reach spiritual contentment. The river unleashed vestiges of Siddhartha’s past, awakening dormant parts of his soul. “With a distorted countenance he stared into the water…Then from the remote part of his soul, from the past of his tired life, he heard a sound…the holy Om…” (Page 72) The river reminded Siddhartha of a fundamental element of his life, which originated from his time as a Brahmin,…

will present Plato’s notions of the soul in the dialogue Phaedrus, in comparison to his notion of the soul in the Republic. His conceptions in each are similar on the grounds that he accepts the human soul as tripartite, with respects to the same parts that the soul is made up of. However, they differ in terms of the distinct analogies Plato uses to show how the three parts of the soul function individually, and together, as one unit. Plato asserts that the human soul is composite and tripartite…

reincarnation. The soul would go on a journey greeted by ancestors, souls of dead could pass between “the world of dead and the world of the living. Australian aboriginal views are the person’s actions during life has no impact on health oh his spirit in the afterlife. There is no hell or heaven. Two souls that merged at death. Eternal dreaming is never ending cycle which is reincarnation. Land of the dreaming ancestors and God and ancestors are the land of the dead deceased person soul went…

responded "Because you are a beautiful lie, and I 'm a painful truth." Death has been alive for many years, centuries to be more exact, and he often wondered if there was more to his existence. He often wondered if he was to do more then just reap souls and end lives. He would look down to the earth, stare at the many people, the people who he knew were going to become subject to the fate brought on by Death himself. He pitied them, he pitied them all. They all lived in hopes to be happy one…

We find Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Satan approaches Eve disguised as a serpent and asks Eve if it is true that God has said that they cannot eat of any of the trees in the Garden. Eve replies, “We may eat of the trees in the Garden, but God said we may not eat of the tree in the middle of the Garden, we cannot even touch it or we will die.” Satan lies to Eve and tells her they will not die. He tells her that God just does not want them to be like Him and know good from evil. What…

believes that happiness comes from the goods of the soul, the goods of the soul come from virtue, he believes that living a virtuous life is the key to achieving happiness, a virtuous life is achieved through self, external goods such as wealth and happiness don’t play a large role in becoming truly happy or living a virtuous life. Happiness is a sufficiently completed good, it desires for…

discussion on the nature of soul and its destiny after the death. It this conversation Socrates expresses his thoughts about the soul being trapped in the human body like in the prison, and his anticipation of the moment of death as a way to release the soul. (upon which the soul would be liberated) The motif of imprisonment and release pervades the entire dialog. Plato uses this motif as a main frame for Phaedo and he reveals it on different planes. The most obvious…

As the age of the renaissance was coming to an end, philosophers debated whether the conscious mind of a person was combined or separate from the person’s body. The first philosopher to talk about this dualism of mind and body was Descartes and he stated that they are both separate things. He claimed that, unlike the body, the mind is indivisible and has no physical extensions. In philosophy, this difference between the body and the mind is called Cartesian dualism. Another contemporary…