Plato's differing accounts of body and soul

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Presentation   |   07/28/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : «Plato s differing accounts of body and soul In both the Phaedo and Republic 4, Socrates offers an account of the nature of psychological conflict in the ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Questioning the universal truth of the soul's ability to rule.. Problems with Socrates's body-soul conception.. Account of psychological conflict offered by Socrates.. The discussion of psychological conflict.. Socrates's additional partitioning of...»

Heaven and hell: Aldous Huxley opens the doors of perception

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Book review   |   11/25/2008   |   .doc   |   9 pages
Document abstract : « Differing perceptions such as these create division rather than Their accounts are no different than the perceptions In Allegory of the Cave by Plato, we gain ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Huxley's travel to the inner mind.. Huxley's experiments with mescaline.. Descriptions of heavenly other worlds in folklore and religion.. The mescaline visionary experience - similar to another visionary, the artist. . Self-simulated...»

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