Similarities Between Socrates And Simmias

After hearing what Simmias comes up with, the men in the room fall into a state of sadness because they feel as though Socrates hypothesis has been disproven. But like always their mentor, Socrates, has a rebuttal towards Simmias. He recalls his discussion with them about the theory of recollection and asks if they still agree with him about its credibility. Simmias as well as others in the room agree that the theory is well grounded and a credible hypothesis because it is based on the theory of forms. Upon hearing this Socrates states how Simmias is contradicting himself by agreeing with this theory and his idea of the attunement of an instrument. He goes into detail saying that the theory of recollection states that the soul must have existed …show more content…
But when it comes to the attunement of an instrument on the other hand, it would be impossible to have attunement before the assembly of the instrument itself. Therefore Simmias’ argument is contradicted and upon hearing this Simmias agrees and takes back his objection to Socrates original argument. After reading this section about the attunement of the soul and Socrates response to his argument I believe that Socrates made the more coherent argument. Although Simmias had a good point when talking about the attunement of an instrument and how it would not be in existence after the object itself was destroyed, Socrates argument has more of a backing than Simmias. The most well grounded of his arguments relates back to the theory of recollection as stated in the paragraph above. Basically Simmias agrees with Socrates because the theory of recollection is in his