Cebes is also not convinced with the idea that the soul is immortal. He makes an analogy between a tailor and a cloak. A cloak has less chances of living than a man, and a tailor will make many cloaks over his life. Cebes and Simmias objections brought a lot of confusion and doubt for everyone.…
In Phaedo, Socrates friends refused to wholly accept Socrates' ideas on the theory of souls, and Simmias in particular puts forward his “theory of attunement”. Simmias claims that “we really do suppose the soul to be something of this kind,” that is, a harmony or proper mixture of bodily elements like the hot and cold or dry and moist. Simmias considers that during our lifetime, we must constantly strive to achieve some sort of certainty, and that this certainty might only be achieved by exploring and exhausting every eventuality that might lead us to the Truth and believes that the soul and body can coincide in harmony with each other. In order to reply to this argument, firstly, Socrates gets both Simmias and Cebes to agree that the theory…
5pts. Socrates offers the idea of opposites during his last hours on earth with his friends. He offers the argument that everything that is in this world came from its opposite. For example, for something small to get bigger, it must be small to start with and get bigger out of being small, the same idea can apply to hot/cold, heaven/hell, for any opposite in the world there is including the idea of living. Socrates asks Cebes in the Phato if there is an opposite of living, which we know to be “death/dead.”…
Socrates’ two premises support his initially stated conclusion that death and life are cyclical opposites or, in other words, that they flow back and forth as states of existence. He concludes, “…living people come to be from nowhere other than from the dead” (Plato, 2014, p. 58, 70d). While Socrates’ argument is valid, his first premise is problematic. It is within this premise that he assumes fundamentally dissimilar relationships between fundamentally dissimilar entities are analogous.…
Plato writes that Socrates believes that the soul is immortal, and I agree with him that it is. He talks about the immortality of the soul in Phaedo and in the Republic. He has multiple arguments for how and why it is immortal, and every one of them makes sense to me. Plato’s writings on the soul are fascinating to me. All of the arguments he has to prove that the soul is immortal make me really think, and in some cases gave me words to describe something I had already thought about.…
Cebes brings up that some people believe that the soul dies the same day the person dies. This is one my favorite parts of Socrates portion of the discussion. The reason I love this part is that Socrates lays out how opposites form other opposites. He shows that greater things come from being less, good comes evil, and to the point of the inquiry, that life comes from death. To explain these processes he shows Cebes that all things are in a state of being and whatever state they are in has been brought into existence by its opposite state of being.…
For in Plato’s Phaedo, the soul is understood to merely be harbored in the body for a brief period. According to the Argument from the Form of Life, the soul, as being what gives life to a body, is the form of life thereby and cannot admit the opposite form, which is death (Plato 105D). Hence, the soul is indeed deathless (Plato 105E). We can see that the establishment of a kind of dualism motivates this argument. The soul is successful characterized as completely distinct and separate from the body.…
Throughout the Republic, Plato mentions the soul several times. Plato agrees that the soul is immortal and separate from the body. He also believes that the soul is eternal and according to Plato, the soul doesn’t come into existence with the body, but rather exists prior to being with the body. He believed that the soul exists inside the body until it dies. Because of this, Plato called the body the prison to the soul.…
In our world, life is regarded as everything, while death is the termination of it. Often referred as two polar opposites, the connection between the two is more than linked, as death cannot exist without life, defining the end of the cycle of life. While life is often cherished and beloved, death remains in the corners of obscurity, bringing terror and fear when mentioned. To make sense of death and mortality, humans have relied on a tried-and-true method: To give death a form they can recognize. Many civilizations around the world created personalizations of death, often portrayed as grim Reapers, shinigamis or gods of death, in order to spread terror over the termination of our beloved life, our everything.…
Socrates’s Argument on Death The topic of death frightens human beings for several reasons because of the speculation and the anxiety that surround death. Even though most people fear death, philosophers such as Socrates argue that there is no valid reason to fear death (Ahrensdorf 1995). According to 5Socrates, death is a blessing in the context of the relocation of the soul. Socrates avers that death is something that people should not fear and provide several arguments to validate his argument.…
In Phaedo, Plato describes the last day of Socrates, who is waiting to be executed by the Athenian’s court. It is a very tragic moment, but there is no visible sense of grief or despair. Reader finds Socrates in the prison cell surrounded by his friends and disciples. Men are having discussion on the nature of soul and its destiny after the death. It this conversation Socrates expresses his thoughts about the soul being trapped in the human body like in the prison, and his anticipation of the moment of death as a way to release the soul.…
The Final Argument emerges from Socrates’ response to Cebes’ objection, which questions whether the soul is truly immortal and can exist after death. Socrates’ argument involves the Theory of Forms, and he begins by describing the Forms as self-predicated and as causes of sensible things. Plato is…
Therefore in regards to the soul, one may think of it in relation to odd, and life as three. The soul is still the soul without the physicality of life, but not the contrary. Life does not exist without the soul. The opposite of life is death, yet the soul does not possess a counterpart. Thus, according to Socrates, if soul cannot admit death it is inevitably immortal (87).…
Plato believed that the human soul was immortal; it existed before this mortal life, and will exist after this earthly sojourn is through. In the Phaedrus, Plato goes into explicit…
Socrates did not fear what would happen when his soul left his body, because philosophy had already taught him…