Conception and immortality of the soul in Plato
Evandro PEGORARO and Juliano de SOUZA
Original title: Concepção e imortalidade da alma em Platão
Published in The Time and the Eternity in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Dualism, Immortality of the soul, Phaedo, Plato, Psyche.
Plato is one of the most important thinkers for the Philosophy, with theories that elapsed centuries and they influenced countless thought currents. Her conception dualist of the reality and of the man it went source to several researches and it still generates discussions in the philosophical debates of the present time. The present article has the intention of presenting the arguments of the book Phaedo regarding the immortality of the soul. For so much, there will be an exhibition of the main points that Plato presents in your cosmological conception and of psyche, as well as the myths on the origin and destiny of the souls after the death, in order to base the understanding of the arguments in favor of the immortality.
Emotion as Search for Wisdom in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s (1651- 1695): El primer sueño
Lydia H. RODRÍGUEZ
Original title: La emoción como búsqueda de la sabiduría en El Primero Sueño de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)
Published in Emotions in the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean World
Keywords: Dualism, Freedom, Intellectual search, Sor Juana, soul.
The following article analyzes emotion as a human intellectual quest; this search can be considered a positive emotion. As Plato once said the use of logic and reason to channel our emotions makes something constructive that leads to the truth. This human need of emotion to seek human understanding is presented in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz expresses her imagination, creativity and genius through her extraordinary verses in the poem Primero Sueño. In this masterpiece of baroque literature, Sor Juana’s intellectual power as a writer, her deep curiosity and especially her pursuit of wisdom is displayed. Under a truly complex surface, there is a current of emotional distress. In the poem, the reader can appreciate Sor Juana’s internal struggle and the sense of desolation that she experiences. This suffering is evident and manifests itself in a constant tension between several contradictory elements in the poem. Finally, Sor Juana attempts to capture the human experience and achieve a complete understanding of the universe in Primero Sueño. She attempts this through her emotional view of the world in which she lives and interprets.
