Phil 50

Front 1

Argument from opposites

Back 1

Recycling of souls
opposites generate from one another
the living comes from the dead
terms derive meaning compared to one another
you don't know it is big until you see something small

Front 2

Recollection Argument
(5 points)

Back 2

The soul must be immortal because
1. forms exist as well as examples that mimic them
2. examples of equal things appear unequal depending on how we measure or observer
3. The form equal could never appear unequal
4. equal examples are deficient, they fall short of perfect equality
5. we must have prior knowledge of the form equal in order to recognize unequal things.

Front 3

when does sensation occur?

Back 3

Sensation occurs at birth, so we have knowledge of equality before we are born. this means it is not acquired it is recalled.

Front 4

Argument from analogy

Back 4

The soul and forms are incomposite
The body and physical word are composite.
It compares the matter and the soul.

Front 5

Composite

Back 5

Visible
change
may be broken into components
physical world
body

Front 6

in composite

Back 6

invisible
unchanging
cannot be broken into smaller components

Front 7

Harmony Objection

Back 7

objection to idea that the soul is immortal
Harmony is invisible, beautiful. The instrument is visible, composite. The soul is invisible and beauty the body is visible and composite.
soul is like harmony
just as harmony is destroyed by the instrument the soul dies with the body

Front 8

Socrates response to the harmony objection

Back 8

It conflicts with recollection. Harmy cannot pre-exist the instrument
The soul is not like the harmony. Music is led by the instrument but the body is led by the soul

Front 9

Weaver Objection

Back 9

1. The soul lasts a long time, while the body is weak and short lived.
2. Each soul wears out many bodies
3. When the soul is perished, the body would show the weakness of its nature by soon decaying and disappearing

Front 10

Socrates Response to Weaver Objection

Back 10

We cannot trust this argument and be confident that our soul continues to exists somewhere after our death
No one knows which death and dissolution of the body brings about the destruction of the soul
A man about to die must always fear for his soul, lest the present separation of the soul from the body bring about the complete destruction of the soul

Front 11

Socrates last argument for immortality

Back 11

death is the destruction of the soul. since the body is always being destroyed the soul does die.

Front 12

Plato's attitude towards the body as regards to the theory of knowledge

Back 12

Knowledge is independent of senses
All knowledge is prior to sensation

Front 13

Recollection

Back 13

Remembering that we have a prior acquaintance with all the forms
immortality

Front 14

Demonstration of knowledge

Back 14

We provide an account of definition of the form

Front 15

Plato argues that one can see the forms

Back 15

False