Death_Unto_Life

Death Unto Life Death Unto Life Is the mind capable of producing a pure thought' I think not. We live in a world influenced by power, prejudice, and greed among other things. It is a world where people inheritably accept the values and morals of their society. As a product of our environment we cannot help to be overcome by the fears, wants, and desires that flow through our world so readily. It is these very things which make us incapable of pure thought. Our thoughts are and always will remain impure as long as our body produces these opinions; the very poison that contaminates our thoughts. In Phaedo, a fictionalized account of Socratese, Plato speaks of the separation of the soul and body. He speaks of pure knowledge and reasoning without the use of the senses, a facet we find so necessary in almost any earthly task. “Then he will do this most perfectly who approaches the object with thought body, soul, pure, thought, knowledge, because, beautiful, reality, world, through, phaedo, beauty, wisdom, truth, things, never, life, death, without, very, truly, speaks, senses, plato, perceives, painting, one, know, itself, forms, fears, experienced, essence, desires, alone, absolute, view, understand, told, summer, society, slightly, sight, separation, separated, separate, reasoning, possibly, possible, perhaps