Phaedo

beginning works of separation. This lesion taught by death is how exactly the soul can separate the body. Everyone will eventually learn this lesion on the day that death arrives, however men such as Socrates learned this long before then. In Plato’s Phaedo, he tells the story of his mentors last day on earth. As he was sentenced to death in Athens after being put on trial for influencing the youth. Although Plato himself was not there he tells of the last day Socrates was alive. The scene is…

In Phaedo, the soul is characterized by cognitive and intellectual characteristics. It is something that can use reason and controls the body. The body is just a vehicle for the soul. Saint Thomas Aquinas argued that the soul is what makes the matter of a living…

101) This is a quote from the Phaedo but Plato writes as Socrates and with what the reader must assume are the views of Socrates without much influence of Plato’s own views or views of outside sources. Socrates explains life and suicide in the form of an object for the people to more…

The “cyclical argument” of the Phaedo imparts the ideology Socrates had in regard to the immortality of the soul and his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He…

glance, the Greek philosopher Plato and American philosopher Daniel Dennett seem to occupy very divergent perspectives on human beings and where their identity is rooted. On the other hand, Plato’s viewpoint as seen through the opening section of the Phaedo is reflective of a primitive evolutionary theory that can explain the cause of life in physical terms and causes. In his philosophical comedy “Where Am I?”, Daniel Dennett argues that we humans are complex machines, or computers, that act…

unveils a discussion of souls (i.e., those of humans, amongst other living things) that is quite unlike what we have seen with other philosophers prior to him. Unlike the theories espoused by his predecessors, such as those of Plato and his work in the Phaedo, Aristotle’s De Anima generates a kind of characterization of the soul that steers away from the soul as being the individual creature’s true and only identity, which is separable from the body and immortal. For Aristotle, the soul is…

to see the dilemma Socrates battles from philosophical questions, being put on trial for crimes he did not commit, given the dilemma to escape his death or face the punishment, and an explanation of why he was not afraid to die. By the end of the Phaedo it’s easy to see why Socrates is thought of as one of the greatest philosophers of the time with how he justly handles each problem he faces throughout his life. A. Euthyphro For the question of “Do the god’s love what is holy because of its…

Psychologists have long classified happiness, or eudemonia as one amongst a few basic, primary emotions – happiness is our immediate, instinctive, and internal response to a situation. Yet, the texts we have studied share a common thread of discussing individual happiness in terms of the happiness of the collective. These authors come to the consensus that happiness product of service to the state, being virtuous, and keeping ones’ desires in check. In Thucydides “Pericles’ Funeral Oration”,…

Most likely the focal contention in the Apology is that one ought to never sell out one's own logic for any reason, regardless of the possibility that the reason is passing. In addition, passing ought to never be a hindrance to a man (particularly a logician) in light of the fact that no man has genuine learning of death, and "doubtlessly it is the most culpable lack of awareness to trust that one realizes what one doesn't have the foggiest idea". Plato and Socrates immovably trusted that we…

In the Phaedo it is fairly unambiguous why the Forms are higher on the hierarchy of reality than physical things, as their constancy and unchangeability makes them more suitable objects of knowledge. It is not transparent, however, why there must be a hierarchy…