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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 then describes the position that dead things transition from being living things to being dead when they die. In the same sense, living things must go from being dead to being living things through the process of coming to life. In a way it’s a cycle that is being described.
2. Evaluation: What ideas, positions, or assumptions do you want to challenge or agree with? Explain your reasons. 0-5pts. …show more content…
The biggest challenge for this argument is the question of the world running out of the opposites and then that would present the idea that at one point the world would run out of producing opposites, thus the world would end. It’s interesting because death and life are a constant cycle and so the idea of opposites producing opposites isn’t that far from being a good argument. I would have to question it though because in a way it’s more of just trying to explain something bigger than just producing opposites. If this means that when we die our souls are reproduced from whatever world we were in, and we have a new beginning. I think that would be hard for people to
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 then describes the position that dead things transition from being living things to being dead when they die. In the same sense, living things must go from being dead to being living things through the process of coming to life. In a way it’s a cycle that is being described.
2. Evaluation: What ideas, positions, or assumptions do you want to challenge or agree with? Explain your reasons. 0-5pts. …show more content…
The biggest challenge for this argument is the question of the world running out of the opposites and then that would present the idea that at one point the world would run out of producing opposites, thus the world would end. It’s interesting because death and life are a constant cycle and so the idea of opposites producing opposites isn’t that far from being a good argument. I would have to question it though because in a way it’s more of just trying to explain something bigger than just producing opposites. If this means that when we die our souls are reproduced from whatever world we were in, and we have a new beginning. I think that would be hard for people to