In God We Trust Analysis
Immortal and Mortal We live under a Christian nation and without a doubt this is represented on our coins and dollars. The phrase ‘In God We Trust?’ refers to the religious foundations of America. This takes us back to the question of divine status, how it was created and its representation when it’s intangible. Studying philosophers of ancient Greece brings us to how religion is perceived today. Centuries ago, Socrates (469–399 BCE) added social, ethical, and political theories to established philosophy. These philosophies later inspired Roman thinkers during the period of the Roman Empire. Plato and Homer derived and illustrated ideas of what it means to be human or divine, through art and literature. Homer and Plato had their own
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So what does it mean to be mortal or immortal? Simply, a mortal is one who is subject to death by free will by having a conscious to make decisions, but either way, we can’t decide when to die because we are humans, therefore, death is inevitable. even if we don't want to accept that as a human you live to die. The value of one's own existence determines one’s fate through this false sense of mortality in reference to the inevitable. Interpreting literature or art leads us to create opinions and perspectives of what is the reality when it comes to death and ultimately one's destiny. Plato and Homer had similarities of the mortal and immortal. Mortal means to be human and immortal is considered the divine. Which both poets believed. With that being said there are complications when it comes to what the divine is, evil or not. Immortals for Homer are similar to mortals just more powerful, Plato believes that the divine can do no evil, but both the living and the dead according to ancient mythology do confront one another. Stories such as the Odyssey tells …show more content…
The Greek way of dying is painless because one’s soul is eternal and the process includes certain rituals to ensure that the mortal is no longer attached to the physicality but to the spiritual realm known as the psyche. All of us mortals think our lives have value that we do exist. My opinions/philosophies about life and death diverge from, Plato’s and Homer’s myths, because I am not dead. . No one wants to die, yet no one wants to live forever, because forever does not exist. Immortality does not exist on this earth. The Greeks understood this because of their own rituals of death; being dead, being dead, but interred, and being dead, but not interred and along with Interred is a verb based on Latin in-into-terra-earth only in relation to the corpse, not the spirituality but the physicality. However, The Greeks believed that funeral rites preceded the road to immortality after death. The spirituality, even today in Christianity was expected when death came, was to be cleansed for suffering or punished for the mortal behavior. The difference between heaven and hell is uncertain, because all we can perceive is our existence but not the existence of the ones individuality after death. Leading to contrasting points made up of theories and mythical conceptions that intervene with the reality of life and the value of life; such as Plato and Homer, there seems to be this conflict of how
So what does it mean to be mortal or immortal? Simply, a mortal is one who is subject to death by free will by having a conscious to make decisions, but either way, we can’t decide when to die because we are humans, therefore, death is inevitable. even if we don't want to accept that as a human you live to die. The value of one's own existence determines one’s fate through this false sense of mortality in reference to the inevitable. Interpreting literature or art leads us to create opinions and perspectives of what is the reality when it comes to death and ultimately one's destiny. Plato and Homer had similarities of the mortal and immortal. Mortal means to be human and immortal is considered the divine. Which both poets believed. With that being said there are complications when it comes to what the divine is, evil or not. Immortals for Homer are similar to mortals just more powerful, Plato believes that the divine can do no evil, but both the living and the dead according to ancient mythology do confront one another. Stories such as the Odyssey tells …show more content…
The Greek way of dying is painless because one’s soul is eternal and the process includes certain rituals to ensure that the mortal is no longer attached to the physicality but to the spiritual realm known as the psyche. All of us mortals think our lives have value that we do exist. My opinions/philosophies about life and death diverge from, Plato’s and Homer’s myths, because I am not dead. . No one wants to die, yet no one wants to live forever, because forever does not exist. Immortality does not exist on this earth. The Greeks understood this because of their own rituals of death; being dead, being dead, but interred, and being dead, but not interred and along with Interred is a verb based on Latin in-into-terra-earth only in relation to the corpse, not the spirituality but the physicality. However, The Greeks believed that funeral rites preceded the road to immortality after death. The spirituality, even today in Christianity was expected when death came, was to be cleansed for suffering or punished for the mortal behavior. The difference between heaven and hell is uncertain, because all we can perceive is our existence but not the existence of the ones individuality after death. Leading to contrasting points made up of theories and mythical conceptions that intervene with the reality of life and the value of life; such as Plato and Homer, there seems to be this conflict of how