In the section by Phaedo, Socrates states, “I have been saying for some time and at some length that after I have a drunk the poison I shall no longer be with you but will leave you to go and enjoy some good fortunes of the blessed….”(Phaedo 115d). What Socrates essentially meant by this was that the “blessed” are philosophers who understood the truth and did not fear death. They were on earth to think and they understood that the body was something that just got in the way of knowledge. So even though Socrates was going to die, he wanted his friends to seek philosophical knowledge from other philosophers and enrich their souls with knowledge. In the scene were Socrates passes away; he sees death as a joke. Throughout the whole time, his
