Plato believes that we were once all gods before some of us "fell" to earth and became imprisoned in our bodies. ... One of the horses is of good stock, and one is the opposite in every way. ... However, most of us do not succeed and end up breaking our wings and falling to earth. Once we fall to earth, we spend ten thousand years in a process of reincarnation trying to grow back our wings and return once again to the gods (Phaedrus, p. 50-56). ... Therefore, He also thinks that all learning that occurs on earth is simply recollection of what we have previously known. ...

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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. ... On the contrary, we actually are the most beastly looking animals on earth, pure biology and naked existence, the essence of all animals. ...

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Reality according to Bruno Latour: There is no natural situation on earth in which someone could be asked this strangest of all questions: "Do you believe in reality?... Examples of the third category are such thing as the Earth, buildings, and electric signals. ...

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LOGICO-SCIENTIFIC PERCEPTION OF REALITY: If we are concerned with: The purpose of life What we should be doing on Earth The meaning of life and death Then the issue of reality and the true nature of our existence is crucial. ... The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, Wiley: Cambridge] In an argument concerning the nature of truth and the corollary of the existence of a Creator in accordance with the Devil, the source of illusion and irrationality - Descartes states: I will suppose, then, not that there is a supremely good God, the source of truth; but that there is an evil...

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward the parent of the same sex, and feelings of romantic love toward the parent of the opposite sex, if these conflicting feelings are not s...

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Although many great names are associated with Romantic literature, two poets who stand out as immensely influential figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute Romantic literature, among them the ro...

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