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    In the dialogue‚ The Phaedo‚ Plato gives an account of the final moments of Socrates. Several arguments are presented and discussed. These arguments regard the immortality of the soul and reincarnation. In this essay I will present a brief summary of the dialogue‚ explain one of the arguments presented in it‚ and finally show why the argument fails to prove the notion of reincarnation. The Phaedo is a Socratic dialogue written by the philosopher Plato. The dialogue gives an account of the final hours

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    reading is the concept that the content arises from the temporal duration of the artwork. I like how McEvilley thinks artwork is timeless and eternal. The author also described in the article that “The divine spark inside the artwork is its immortal Soul‚ which enables it‚ like the magical ritual‚ to penetrate through to higher metaphysical realms and to act as a channel to conduct higher powers downward while yet keeping them pure.” It is difficult to think of artwork as a form of the divine‚ but

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    their loved ones again? One question can be answered: We are all going to die. There is no agreement on what happens after we die. Atheists argue that after death there is nonexistence. Nothingness. Elimination of the mind‚ body‚ “self”‚ spirit and soul. We are born‚ mature‚ grow old‚ and

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    psycho-somatic disorders. But the relationship between mental health and the soul is still not widely appreciated. However many leading psychiatrists are now accepting the existence of soul. Other specialists in the medical field and eminent scientists including a few Nobel Prize winners belonging to various fields have also accepted the existence of soul. Detailed description of all the evidence for the existence of soul is beyond the scope of this article. As a result of more than one hundred years

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    part of His/Her spiritual form into human beings as the human soul (kra). This soul in the human being never perishes. That is why the Akan say Nipa wu a‚ na onwuee - When the human being dies‚ he/she is not dead. This soul reincarnates. When a child is born‚ the Akan give the child a soul name (kra din) such as Kwadwo (boy’s name) or Adwoa (girl’s name) for the child born on Monday because that is the name for day of the week the human soul appears in this physical world. The Akan also believe that

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    key to happiness. Love brings the good out of our souls to guide our lives. We search for goodness in love‚ yet surrendering to love and desire (eros) is what brings out our goodness. The happiness that love provides encourages the individual to be his or her best self‚ which is how we ultimately live our lives around goodness. Plato’s Symposium teaches this catch-22: in searching for goodness in love‚ we discover the goodness within our own souls. A person faces choices every day; with every decision

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    Textual Analysis Term Paper: Gorgias As history suggests‚ Plato was Socrates’ prime student. Plato’s key belief was that the ultimate reality was the notion and concepts of things. His deduction was that what we see in the physical world are simply abstract representations of universal ideas. Consequently‚ Plato supposed‚ that to correctly understand reality one must transcend the physical reality into the world of ideas‚ which is seen in Plato’s “Gorgias.” A lot of the dialects in this

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    belief in disembodied existence- Plato believed we have immortal souls that leave body at death. 4- Theory of the Atman- Hinduism 6- ‘My essence consists solely in the fact that I am a thinking thing…’- Descartes Support for embodied existence: 1- Christian belief in resurrection- outline Jesus’ resurrection after death- Link to hicks idea of the replica. 3- The only meaningful way to talk about survival after death is to say that souls can be reunited- Peter Geach 5- Characteristics and memories can

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    February 2014 The Relationship with My Bedroom I have relationships with everything around me. The relationship that matters most is with my immediate surroundings‚ more specifically my bedroom. My bedroom is where I can be myself‚ it’s where my soul is‚ it’s my place of peace‚ and it’s also where I am happy and content. Everywhere on Earth I have to pretend to be someone else. Out in public I have to pretend to that I am always happy‚ well prepared‚ and well organized. The truth is that I am

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    separate than our fleshly body. I believe this separate entity to be a soul”an immaterial and eternal substance every human possesses.” Yet before I can talk about souls‚ I need to talk about God. I believe that‚ like Aquinas says‚ we were “put in motion” by a first mover; I believe this to be God‚ an omniscient‚ omnipotent‚ omnipresent‚ perfect‚ eternal‚ and loving (the list goes on . . .) being. I believe that He created man to have a soul that could be in perfect relation with Him. Many of you may say

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