believe in the existence of the soul‚ we cannot use the idea of a soul to construct a personal identity. The argument is the result of Gretchen not believing that personal identity is the result of the sameness of the soul. If a person has the same soul at one point in life and again in the other‚ we can assume that the person is also the same. Gretchen does not support this claim because she believes that we can never assume that the principle that the same souls equate to the same body is true
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far shore‚ on this side new souls crowd. (Dante‚ Canto 3 lines 93-99) In canto 3‚ Dante and Virgil arrive at the Gate of Hell. While walking in‚ they hear cries of torture and see the dead souls suffering in a terrifying environment. These souls are constantly being bit by flies and wasps‚ and worms are sucking in their blood and tears. Dante is shocked when he sees this. They continue walking and arrive near the river of Acheron where they see a group of dead souls waiting to be taken across
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formation of a good soul and its relationship to the erotic soul as described in Plato’s the Symposium‚ while the Neoplatonic self in Plotinus’s The Enneads and Marsilio Ficino’s speeches in Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love is a Christianization of this erotic soul. All three philosopher’s works‚ tie into love and the human soul‚ and the human search for beauty and goodness. Plato’s the Symposium is a narrative in which its character’s discuss love as it relates to the human soul. The love mainly
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lyre and the soul to the lyre’s harmony. Socrates‚ however‚ argues that this an inaccurate comparison. He explains that a harmony can be more and more fully harmonized or less and less fully harmonized‚ to which Phaedo confirms. Socrates then claims that a soul cannot be neither more nor less of a soul than another‚ a fact which Phaedo also confirms. Consequently‚ if the harmony of a lyre were to represent the human soul‚ then the harmony of all lyres must be the same‚ since no soul is greater nor
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that the soul and the body are two separate things. Dualists believe that the soul can live on after the death of the body. A prime example of a dualist would be Plato; he believed that the body was gross and unthinking object that has cravings and desires and it connected to sensory illusions. But he believed that the soul was in fact a thoughtful and eternal and craves intellectual stimulation and philosophy and originated from the world of the forms. Plato thought that in time the soul would go
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they called it: “lacking a soul.” Less than human‚ others said. As if mankind ever needed a reason for bigotry. With the legal precedent of equating abortion with murder on the basis of the unborn baby possessing a soul‚ crimes against GID individuals were no longer prosecuted. No soul equals not human. Not human equals no rights. After all‚ a common epithet used to describe horrendous criminals was “soulless‚” so what did that imply for people whom science stated had no souls? I was one of the
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The concept of God according to Descartes and the so called antitheist position of Descartes Philomon Kani René Descartes is often credited with being the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” This title is justified due both to his break with the traditional Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophy prevalent at his time and to his development and promotion of the new‚ mechanistic sciences. His fundamental break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold
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I will utilize Plato’s argument on immortality‚ the ability to live forever‚ on the soul. Plato was the first to argue against immortality and in his book‚ Phaedo‚ he has three arguments on immortality: The Cyclical Argument‚ The Argument from Recollection‚ and The Affinity Argument. Socrates believes that the “souls of the dead in the underworld” come from people who are living today and that the “living souls come back of those from the dead.” In Plato’s first argument‚ The Cyclical Argument
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personal identity or immortality of the soul. Theories about life after death are all interested in whether or not there is a part of the human body which survives the death of all the physical parts and where or when it goes. Dualism states that there is a distinction between our body and our actual self‚ commonly referred to as our soul. Generally‚ in dualism‚ the soul is viewed as immortal‚ and therefore our existence in the afterlife is defined by our soul. Materialism is quite the opposite‚ and
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conveys one of the most fundamental theories unfolding the after life. During this conversation Socrates exposes his believe of the immortality of the soul‚ arguing that he indeed is eager to die‚ claiming that death just represents the separation of soul and body. According to him‚ philosophers prepare throughout their lives for this‚ given that by the soul alone‚ reason‚ and wisdom flourish. By presenting different ideas like the argument of opposites‚ the theories of recollection and forms‚ and the
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