Soul

However, there are also, internal senses. By the ‘internal senses’ Avicenna refers to the cognitive faculties of the sensory soul other than the external senses. The organs of the inner senses are the different ventricles of the brain in which they are located. It is found in three ventricles of the brain, placing two in each ventricle, with receptive and retentive capacities

Death is the final separation of the soul and body; most believe that the soul is immortal, so it will survive death. Socrates argues three statements that the soul is indeed immortal, the first statement is known as Argument from opposite. In this argument everything is opposite such as life and death are opposites, humans live and eventually

reality is always in our soul, the soul would be immortal so that you should always confidently try to seek out and recollect?” (86, b). Because of this recollection (anamnesis), Socrates concludes that the soul is then immortal and is all in all, recollecting previous knowledge hidden deep within the soul. Unlike Socrates, I do not believe that that this kind of knowledge is recollected. I feel that Socrates’ example with the slave boy does not “prove” immortality of the soul but rather, strains to

windows to the soul, so it makes sense that a soul can be bled out of someone through their sockets. 8:33 pm There is a choking, bitter stench in the pine woods this evening. Thick and suffocating, it crawls towards me like a fog. Broken bodies are littered everywhere, and not just the dead kind. We wander around, sniffing the air, hugging ourselves in search of some feeling of warmth and comfort. Bodies cannot feel, we do not have a personality. We lost those privileges when we lost our souls. Now we

a material account, but we can see that we still cannot identify material account independently of the soul, because even though human beings are constituted from other than flesh and bones, if they possess soul, then their material account does not matter. For these reasons, I can conclude that functionalism cannot be adequate to clarify the relation between soul and body, too. Burnyeat also thinks that functionalism cannot be adequate, because Aristotle has some points which contradict with functionalism

of points in his discussions about the philosophy of God and of religion. Many of these points seem to foreshadow what the Christian faith teaches, ideas such as the highest forms, the cultivating a life for the afterlife, and the immortality of the soul, and the idea of just and unjust med and their rewards. Though some of these ideas need to be changed a bit to fit in with each other, the main idea behind their thoughts seem to be parallel. In the following paragraphs I will expand more on how the

Hinduism was one of the religions that I found to be most intriguing and different than most of the religions that are now major. The word Hindu is derived from the Sanskrit word Sindhu which is what the Persians called them because of where they were from. Hindu are those who follow the way of dharma, the four classes of varnas and stages of life ashramas.” Hinduism is a major world religion because of its influences throughout time that have shaped other religions that branched off from it. Hinduism

achieved through her battle with Venus and union with Cupid. It is also interesting that in the beginning of the story when Psyche (the soul) is in a state of innocence and bliss immortality is not something she desires it is only when she finds love that it is something that becomes relevant. The tale can also be looked at in the aspect that Psyche or the soul would have remained alone, innocent and beautiful but still alone, moral and childless had it not been for love. Regardless of the hardships

in their search for the truth caught glimpses of Divinity and the truth of eternal life. This search culminated in Socrates, who through his lifelong search for truth gained an image of the soul and eternal life similar to the catholic belief of eternal life. In the Phaedrus, Socrates says that all divine souls “go to feast at the banquet”(Phaedrus 247b), they climb up and view a place beyond heaven where there is a supreme divine being. “What is in this place is without color and without shape and

something away from the soul. However, in this case it is not freedom nor identity, but wisdom. The belief that the body takes something from an individual is present in Socrates’ epistemological beliefs. To Socrates, learning is recollection. To prove this, Socrates introduces the Theory of Opposites, which states that all things in the world come out of their opposites: largeness out of smallness, loudness out of quietness, life out of death. He reasons that this proves that the soul is immortal and after