Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mind, with perception receiving the lion's share of attention.  ... In fact, the frequent use of myths in many of his poems proves that, Tennyson believed not to stagnate in a melancholic state. ... Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instea...

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The reason that we first explored the eternal as a concept is that Kierkegaard believes that it is the synthesizing factor for the other distinctions. ... In his Journals and Papers he used a metaphor to express what the difference is: "Who thinks of hitching Pegasus and an old nag to one carriage for a rife. ...

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Faith is a good thing when it is all you have to go on, but we have a brain capable of thought and we should use it. ... Monkeys can use tools, can even discover them when they already exist, but cannot invent them, I think. ... Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. ...

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