Phaedo

Between Plato’s dialogues and the Greek tragedies composed by Sophocles, there remains a rift between the idea that knowledge is the ultimate achievement versus the idea that it is ultimately the downfall of one’s mental and emotional well-being. While Plato argues that knowledge of absoluteness, true beauty, and otherwise complete enlightenment can only be achieved in fractions by means of cognitive awareness or fully after death, Sophocles presents the notion that we are better off blind to…

beings are comprised of two separate entities, a body and soul. The soul is immortal and cycles in nature and lives an infinite number of bodies. This paper will explore the immortality of the soul as discussed by Socrates in The Apology, Crito and Phaedo and learn his great lessons regarding human life. The Apology is regarding Socrates defense of himself at the time of his trial. Socrates, a wise philosopher is brought in the courtroom and the Athenian jury convicts him on corrupting the…

Explain thinker’s view Plato posits two layers of reality, the layer of Being and the layer of Becoming. The layer of becoming is the layer of what appears to be real. To Plato, this layer accounts for the constant and fleeting changes rendered by subjectivity. He thinks that subjectivity happens because humans are imperfect beings (at the layer of Becoming) who therefore are not capable of conceiving perfection (at the layer of Being). The layer of Being is what Plato refers to as what is…

Written in the archaic period, around three-hundred years prior to Plato and Diogenes, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey provide substantial evidence to support that the body and the soul both play major roles in forming the concept of self. The emphasis placed on the body through the Homeric lens is evident in the dialogue Hector and Achilles have in The Iliad before their duel. Hector, aware that his chances of victory against Achilles are grim, pleads to Achilles, “Once I’ve stripped your glorious…

Socrates’ two premises support his initially stated conclusion that death and life are cyclical opposites or, in other words, that they flow back and forth as states of existence. He concludes, “…living people come to be from nowhere other than from the dead” (Plato, 2014, p. 58, 70d). While Socrates’ argument is valid, his first premise is problematic. It is within this premise that he assumes fundamentally dissimilar relationships between fundamentally dissimilar entities are analogous. When…

Religion October 12 2015 Euthyphro Essay In the story of Euthyphro, Euthyphro meet Socrates outside the court of Athens. Socrates is there for a charge of corrupting the young by Meletus. Socrates asks Euthyphro why he is at the court of Athens. Euthyphro tells him that he is there to prosecute his father for killing a murder by accident. This happens when one of his workers gets in a argument with one of his slaves while drunk and kills him. His father ties the murder up and throws him into a…

In Plato’s, The Trials and Death of Socrates, Socrates is the ultimate cause of his own death because of not conforming to the democracy of the Athenians and corrupting the young. Socrates was a wise philosopher of his time and was in search of the truth, rather than believing in the Athenians Gods. Nevertheless, it was more than just a simple search for Socrates. His search for the truth turned into a complex journey to where the answer of true wisdom leads Socrates to be brought up on charges…

Every individual’s worldview is shaped by their experiences and beliefs; therefore, everyone is different. Even though Plato and Augustine were both philosophers, their worldviews differed greatly. Plato spent his life in Athens as an influential leader in both politics and religion. Since Socrates was his mentor, the majority of what Plato taught was centered on Socrates’ philosophy. Apart from being well-known as a student of Socrates, Plato was also known as an excellent writer of…

The Best Possible World Ignorance and the State of Reality Written by: Cody McLean Course Instructor: Professor Dorter Seminar Leader: John Law Date of submission: October, 15, 2014 “Ignorance is bliss” is a statement overheard but not over spoken and the gravity of this statement is sometimes overlooked as it will become more apparent. The basis of our reality is perceptual, Man is born free but is chained to a false reality by his senses, and this reality is one of ignorance and…

In Plato’s dialogue Meno one of ideas that is discussed by Socrates is the idea of the immortality of the soul. Socrates outlines his belief that the soul is immortal and therefore possesses all knowledge available; so there is no such thing as learning but instead recollecting information. Even though the idea of the immortality of the soul was believed by one of the greatest philosophical minds that has ever lived, Socrates, there are some flaws with this concept. One flaw is that Socrates’…