Date of Award

2006

Document Type

Research Paper

First Advisor

Sean Morris

Abstract

Your soul is your identity, your essence, the thing that makes you who you are. We, who seek comfort and security in this lifetime, would like to identify ourselves with whatever is most indivisible, immutable, and unchanging. Where your desires are, there you will be. Our human desires generally are common. We want success; we do not want failure. We want pleasure; we do not want pain. We want to live; we do not want to die.. Yet, so often in this world, success becomes failure, pleasure becomes pain, and life becomes death. In fact, these dichotomies are not altogether separate. Should we seek comfort in these manifold things, which are temporal, transitory, and dissoluble? Where should one put the soul? Drawing on personal experience, academic criticism, mythology, and popular culture, this author offers his response to this ancient dilema.By using Metal Gear Solid, Cowboy Bebop, The Bhagavad-Gita, I created the Meaning in My Mind.

Comments

WSP Major: Myth, Meaning, and Mind

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