Jack's Philosophical World

What view does Socrates have about the relationship between philosophy and death? Do you agree? Explain.     Socrates believes that when death occurs, the soul exits the body and continues to prosper from growing knowledge. He believes it is something that one shouldn't fear, and that the soul will exist alone. It is also said in the tapes that those who are purified will dwell with the gods. For me, death is a bizarre concept. I will be honest, I have a fear of dieing because throughout my life I have learned that death is never that far from you. I know people who had their lives taken too soon, and I sometimes find myself thinking of where those people are now where they could be. The thought of complete darkness after death depresses me. What if it's true that one of us dieing is the same as squashing an ant, and we just fade away into the darkness of what we don't truly kno...

  Derrick Darby in his work “Reparations and Radical Inequality,” addresses restitution in terms of a group level compared to an individual one.   He presents the argument that slave owners should contribute reparations to slave’s relatives.   With the horrible injustices the have happened over the course of history in the United States, the question has been posed if living descendants of slaves should be paid for the horrifying acts of the past. In July 2008, the US House of Representatives stated how they were committed to “‘redressing the lingering consequences of these misdeeds” (Darby, 2010).   The   aftermath from the horrific events still continue to have consequences today in with the imbalances between blacks and white in education, wealth, health, and more. With the US being more than five decades away from Brown v. Board of Education, there still continues to be a setback for black students in educational underachievement, compared to white students....