The Ka was Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person. The Ka left the body of a person when she or he died. The Ba was the soul, but also the unique qualities of each person. The Ba had a very important mission when the person died; it was responsible for allowing deceased to leave his tomb and rejoin his Ka. The Ba was also able to transform into a bird with human head and fly between the tomb and the Underworld.
He strongly believed that evil is solely a result of human rebellion. He also argued God knew this would happen, as it is God who is omniscient. Just as he had previously seen the dispute between the angels which had lead to Satan being removed from the Heaven. Hence, Augustine
Aristotle has a monist approach to the soul, unlike Plato he says that the soul cannot exist without the body. The soul is not a body but something that belongs in a body, comparable to the brain; it is necessary and is within all humans and it gives us reason, intellect and an innate sense of justice. This therefore can make his theory more convincing than Plato’s as the soul isn’t ‘immortal’ and dies along with the body, thereby eliminating the theory of reincarnation which is hard for anyone who isn’t Hindu to believe as it is contradictory to their religious views. Aristotle states that all reason is associated with the pure thought of the Prime Mover and the soul is what gives the body its shape and form; he argued that the soul is not a substance but the reason and shape behind the matter. Best described by using the example of a marble statue, as the marble stature is essentially a block of marble but it has a shape and form and like the body the soul, the shape and form cannot be removed from what the statue is, in the same way the body cannot be separated from the soul.
Hesiod describes the gods as separate entities. Each of the gods takes on a different physical or psychological aspect of humanity. Hesiod’s gods create one another, “Great Heaven came, and with him brought the night. Longing for love, he lay around the Earth” (Hesiod, n.d., p. 58). Great Heaven and Earth bore Kottos and Gyes and Briarues, for example.
Differences between Epicureans and Stoics During the Hellenistic period there were two popular religions called Stoicism and Epicureanism. These two religions were drastically different. Stoicism is centered around the belief that all things are materialistic and we can know what truth really is because it all based on your state of mind whether something it real or not and that your virtue will be judged. Epicureanism is all about, in easier terms, following your heart. Basically this life is all you have so do what you want.
He called them ‘’the Really Real’’. The world of the Forms is rational and unchanging; the world of physical appearances is changeable and irrational, and only has reality to the extent that it succeeds in imitating the Forms. The mind or soul belongs to the Ideal world; the body and its passions are stuck in the muck of the physical world. They can strongly influence our behavior, and even our character. So the best human life is one that tries to understand and to imitate the Forms as closely as possible.
Both characters seem to constantly blame each other, and try to undermine each other to destroy their evils, but this is impossible as the two are part of a singular identity and need each other. No matter how much they try to convince themselves that their counterpart is a great barrier to their happiness, they are unable to even survive let alone be happy without each other. Their doppelganger relationship is comparable to that of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson in which the two main characters, Jekyll and Hyde, are alter egos of each other, representing the conflict between good and evil within their singular identity. Frankenstein and Jekyll both battle with their identity, and face immense psychological turmoil as a result of their doppelgangers. Both these stories focus on the dualistic nature of man, and the idea that one cannot repress a part of one’s identity
(Lawhead 2011:15-16). However, the pre-Socratic philosophers brought about change through discrediting the accepted mythical thinking that all things can be explained by means of the nature of the Greek gods. They went about removing the negativity surrounding knowledge at the time in order to facilitate human beings to determine truth for themselves instead of blindly believing explanations of a blind nature. This opened up a consideration for knowledge from a naturalistic standpoint (Curd & Graham 2008:8). The theories of the pre-Socratic philosophers were generally characterised by their link to perception.
Even the greatest of artists would rather give away his life than surrender his art to be judged solely by the public. Art for an artistic genius is practised for its own sake; art for the purpose of art. Existence for the sake of existence itself - stripped of meaning, of value and of subjective interpretation. In its bear meaningless form, something still remains: the necessary Natural Law, a philosophical concept considered the basis of human well-being, a system of the values that determine human existence. Throughout The Tempest Prospero’s character portrays an image of a nearly Nietzchean superhuman capable of disclaiming authority, killing God.
On the individual level, both realism and liberalism make very outdated assumptions about human nature. Human nature has been one of the main issues that philosophers have considered throughout history, and an understanding of human nature is obviously the basis of any political ideology. Realists claim that human beings are innately violent and selfish; 1 Charles W. Kegley, Jr. and Shannon L. Blanton, World Politics: Trend