Contrasting Ideologies on Life and Death
Even though many people throughout history have said and done evil things, I believe that history can also show us great things that our race has done. For example, look at the Pyramids of Giza they are one of the most majestic wonders of the world, and they are still studied today, even 6,000 years after being created. In the past and current times this world has had influential people, such as Pope Innocent III, say mankind is evil, other influential people agree that all people have some good inside and can do great things, such as Plato. He is well known for his philosophies on life and being a positive life figure. There are many different ways to look at life, and man’s meaning on earth, and some are better than others.
The twelfth century pope, Pope Innocent III wrote, “On the Misery of the Human Condition” explaining how we as humans will never be as perfect as god and we are sent here for torture and agony;
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I have found myself researching Plato and his theories quite often as of late and it seems if he were still alive, we would get along great. He has a complete opposite theory to a lot of the Pope’s writings. His metaphysical and epistemological doctrines are based off of the idea that thoughts make us who were are and also allow us to choose our own reality. Plato focused his idealist theories around the Pure and True. His philosophy translates into everyone having a good heart no matter how evil they might be and that we all have pure souls no matter how dim our life makes us look. Our society today should adopt more of what Plato believed. It seems more times than not, we are faced with an evil on this earth that is larger than a single person can handle alone. With the limited that time we are privileged to spend in this life, Plato’s belief was that we should learn to love one
Dedication, hope, and dreams of a better life for the animals, was all the horse could ever think of. In Animal Farm the author George Orwell choose Boxer the horse to represent the industrious and determined working class looking for changes during the Russian Revolution. From the visual it can be easily interpreted that the horse was an innocent hardworking soul. Boxer is portrayed, as an individual who may not be the brightest, but is a man of his words. All his perseverance ultimately, plays a crucial role in the story and keeps the plotline going. For instance, inspiring other animals, using his strength to hold together the farm, and lastly his gullible side that later causes him trouble.
There surely is in human nature an inherent prosperity to extract all the good out of all the evil (Benjamin Hayden). With all of the immoral events going on in the world, it can be tough to keep the belief that humankind is inherently good. Recently, I have read Ellie Wiesel’s autobiography Night. The entire event of the Holocaust disproves this belief, but that is without including those whom liberated the concentration camps, fought against the Nazis, and those whom continuously denied the actions of Adolf Hitler and his followers. However, there are actions and events in our everyday lives that take place and support the claim that humankind is inherently good.
I believe that human beings are basically good. When they are first born and grow up as babies and toddlers, humans are innocent. However, with the effects of outside experiences and social expectations, human beings can be prone to evil. Humans want to be recognized within society and this can be seen in the movie, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”. Due to the social environment that Tom Ripley lives in, he feels the need to fit in and be wealthy like the people around him. This causes him to seek for ways, whether the action is moral or immoral, to attain a higher social status.
The final argument from Lucretius is the “proof from the structural connection of mind and body.” This
Throughout history humans have shown to be both wonderful and awful. There are many examples of wonderful humans that changed the world for the better like Gandhi. There are some examples of awful humans that made the world worse like Adolf Hitler. Many people think that humans are generally good and are lead to do good things. I believe that humans are bad because they give power to those that abuse it
Two of the greatest philosophers of Athens, Socrates and Plato, each gave their ideas on several issues. These issues included justice, government and education, allegories about the Line and the Cave. Also, their views could be tied into the first chapter of the book that we have. The views and ideas of Socrates and Plato had an influence on several governments that would follow their time.
Plato’s Apology was supposed to represent Socrates’ trial for his being a nuisance and corrupting the youth. Socrates defended himself by saying that he was merely performing service to the god that said that he was wiser than anyone else. This defense did not work, and he lost the trial. Socrates remained defiant during the sentencing portion of the trial, which led to him be sentenced to death, and as such he had to face his mortality. Socrates viewed death as not being an unscrupulous entity. In this paper, I will explain his two meanings of death, difference between both meanings, and argue the one I believe in.
Part One Socrates primary emphasis is that death should not be feared as it is the state of nothingness, and unconsciousness, where people’s soul change or migrate from this world to another one. Apparently, many individuals fear this oblivion, but Socrates did not, and he referred it as a significant gain, where a person has that peaceful time to sleep without any disturbances even by their dreams. Again, he viewed it as a heavenly afterlife, where one gets that judgment from those people who are righteous in life. Socrates gives various facts and opinions to support his claim that no one who should ever fear death.
We have two great philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. These are great men, whose ideas have not been forgotten over years. Although their thoughts of politics were similar, we find some discrepancies in their teachings. The ideas stem from Socrates to Plato to Aristotle. Plato based moral knowledge on abstract reason, while Aristotle grounded it on experience and tried to apply it more to concrete living. Both ways of life are well respected by many people today.
In the various discussions of imitative art there has been a notable disagreement between two distinguished philosophers; Plato and Aristotle. Although it was Plato who first discussed the concept of imitative art, it is my belief that Aristotle was justified in his praise and admiration of imitative art, specifically, the tragic drama. In my discussion on the two philosophers’ dissertations I will begin with the ideas of Plato and his position and requirements for imitative art and its respected uses, after which I will discuss the ideas of Aristotle to show that the tragic
Being good or doing good things leads to many things, but in order to give a clearer definition, one must understand what it is that these good actions created. Once one understands this, then the individual can clearly see the logic behind what some would consider an evil action. Over time, humankind has strived to become what they believed to be holy pure or good. This attempt at being what is virtuous has given birth to a set code of conduct or thoughts that are now commonly seen as the right thing. This code of conduct was based upon morals, which are any given individuals thoughts and believes on what is acceptable as good and evil. Due to the fact that mankind also strives to be accepted by there peers, a common set of morals was established and agreed upon by any specific generation of people to be the good thing. Understanding and knowing these the morals of these given times in history will be necessary to understanding how to define evil.
Plato's views on life after death were manifold, and developed over time as an examination of a bevy of his literature readily indicates. However, during all phases of his writing he does demonstrate that there is in fact life after physical death, which is widely attributed to his notion of the soul. Plat always viewed the soul as an entity that was distinct from the physical body. Moreover, while the physical body was destined to die, the soul was enduring, interminable, and destined to go on somewhere in some state of being. In just what sort of way the soul would endure was a matter of question, in which at various points in his career as a writer Plato offered different accounts. Yet the most consistent part of this conception of the author's was the fact that the soul was everlasting.
Comparing the political theories of any two great philosophers is a complex task. Plato and Aristotle are two such philosophers who had ideas of how to improve existing societies during their individual lifetimes. While both Plato and Aristotle were great thinkers, perhaps it is necessary first to examine the ideas of each before showing how one has laid the groundwork and developed certain themes for the other.
I am Gino Dettorre, and I will be a senior at Bishop Watterson High School this coming school year. Currently, I am interested in pursuing a major in biology with a minor in Spanish at either Washington University in Saint Louis, University of Pennsylvania, or Vanderbilt University. While participating in the Mechanisms of Human Health and Disease program at Children’s Hospital, I have gained a better understanding of the molecular bases of various diseases, and I am interested in applying this knowledge in a laboratory setting. I have chosen to research acute myeloid leukemia because I have known relatives and friends affected by blood cancers, and I am interested in better understanding the mechanisms of this disease.
In his most well known work, The Republic, Plato states that in his view, only in a good society can the good life be achieved. The Republic outlines Plato’s idea of a perfect or utopian society. He also identifies the four cardinal virtues that are required for a good society. These cardinal virtues are temperance or self-control, courage, wisdom, and justice. Without these virtues he believed that the good life could not be obtained. In The Republic Plato also discusses two different forms of