that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. To hear the immense night‚ still more immense without her. And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture. What does it matter that my love could not keep her. The night is shattered and she is not with me. This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance. My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. My sight searches for her as though to go to her. My heart looks for her‚ and she is not with me. The
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anything; or‚ as we are told‚ it is really a change: a migration of the soul from this place to another.” (Apology 40c). At this point‚ Socrates does not give any definitive answer as to whether death is annihilation or the migration of the soul; rather‚ he argues that it does not really matter. He explains why both options are favorable‚ by comparing annihilation to‚ “a dreamless sleep” (Apology 40d) and stating that if the soul migrates‚ the dead spend their time with “demigods that were upright
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Immanuel Kant’s philosophical views of human nature and the ethical systems that govern human actions are primarily summed up in his composition of the "Categorical Imperative.” By his own logic‚ Kant attempted to describe the mechanics of nature and the morality of mankind. As Mitchell states: Indeed‚ as Kant showed us‚ the world appears to operate according to the principle of cause and effect‚ and our shared agreement of this interpretation allows us to reason about the world. (Mitchell‚ 259)
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“War and its aftermath” In Louise Edrich’s short essay‚ “The Red Convertible‚” she exposes the horror of the war that impose on the relationship of the two brothers‚ Henry and Lyman. Edrich uses symbolism to reveal the struggle and hardship Henry brings home from the war of Vietnam. She also shows Lyman’s difficulties while separating from his brother and his attempt to build the close relationship between them. She uses pathos in this short story to describe the theme of emotional disorder that
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Plato created the tripartite theory of the soul to represent what helps people make a decision‚ and the nature of a person’s soul. Plato’s tripartite of the soul is the appetite‚ the spirit‚ and the mind (1). The appetite is the part of us that seeks pleasures‚ comforts‚ and physical satisfactions. The spirit part is what gets angry when we hear something that we feel is wrong. Lastly‚ the mind is our consciousness or awareness. Parallel to Plato’s tripartite is Aristotle’s tripartite which are reason
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speech and the end of the speech in particular when he has been denied any alternative punishment. In the passage for analysis here the main points of discussion are death as a good or an evil‚ death as annihilation or death as a transmigration of the soul and briefly‚ some
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and left us in anguish that numbered all feelings. But t have since risen from the depths to which Sonia’s death crushed me‚ and phoenix- like have left my dead ashes‚ to sing the charms that the death of one so dearly loved can bring to the soul. I have known the darkness of occasional brooding‚ but I would dwell most upon a struggle with sorrow that has sweetened my nature‚ which otherwise‚ would have been stultified by the pain. Pain‚ I have realized‚ is beautiful only when one can
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On the left is Last Judgement (c. 1120- 1146). It is from Autun Cathedral in France. On the right is Aspe of Saint Climent de Taüll (c.1123). It is located in the church of Saint Climent de Taüll. During this period‚ every church has its own relic. It was believed that it could heal the sick and could offer blessings that might even shorten ones time in purgatory if one came and paid homage and prayed to them. The Autun Cathedral was built specifically to house the relics of St. Lazarus. Lazarus
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he collect human souls and put them into his box‚ but he can also control the natural elements such as winds‚ to frighten people according to his will and summon the spirit of dead men. Secondly‚ Mr. Scratch is frightening because of his casual attitude toward human life. In his eyes‚ human life is insignificant and menial. When collecting human souls is regarded as a normal affair‚ Mr. Scratch can mutter the names of these collected souls in such a natural way and catch human souls just like butterflies
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Meno’s argument by telling him that the priests and priestess and other divinely inspired poets say that the soul of a man is immortal. He uses the immortality to say that the soul has seen everything in this world and the other world and‚ therefore‚ it has learned everything that is. Therefore man should not be surprised if the soul recalls the knowledge of virtue or anything that the soul possessed. Socrates argues that‚ when a man
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