Phaedo

discusses the central idea around living and dying based on accordance with the principles, and one should not retaliate evil for evil. The life of wickedness is easy to pursue, but is weighted heavily on the soul after the physical body dies. The Phaedo dialogue is unique and presents Socrates views on the immortality of the soul. The importance is placed on the theory of opposites, recollection and affinity. Through Socrates voice of reason we see the importance placed upon a life of a…

family of these people claim Socrates is a corrupting influenc In Platos most important passages of many, the phaedo, I Echecrates encourages Phaedo , who is from of Elis, explain the story of Socrates’ death. Socrates had been fated to commit suicide by drinking hemlock as poison and before that he requested that he spend time with his fellow philosophers and companions of his long life. Phaedo states that among many friends were were Crito and two Pythagorean philosophers, Simmias and Cebes.…

In the essay, Phaedo, Plato gives us Socrates’s idea of the life of a philosopher, in what is his final hours before he drinks the poison. This takes place a couple of days after Crito. The setting is in Socrates’s cell, his wife and children are with him, but leave before he drinks the poison. Also in the cell with him is Phaedo, Crito, Cimmias and Cebes, to ask the question, “why is Socrates egger to drink the poison?” He answers with, to study philosophy is to prepare yourself for death (64a)…

In the two texts that we read in class, Plato, Phaedo, and Lucretius, Nature of Things, both Socrates and Lucretius try to reassure us that we should not be afraid of death. In Plato, Phaedo, Phaedo is telling the story of Socrates’s final hours from being their first hand. In Lucretius, Nature of Things, Lucretius’s telling his view on religious issues and how he got to his view, poetic skills, and study on scientific phenomena. Both Socrates and Lucretius have different arguments on why we…

[Step 1] In the Phaedo, Socrates makes an argument that the soul must be immortal (78b-84b). This argument is referred to as the Affinity Argument. It begins at 78b in the Phaedo, when Socrates asks to which class of things the soul belongs. What Socrates means by the “soul” is the self; the mind (Phaedo 65c & 66e). What Socrates means by “class” is class of existence. This is best illustrated in another of Plato’s accounts of Socrates, The Republic, where his standard of measurement of…

Phaedo, is the fourth and last dialogue and describes Socrates’s final days before he was put to death by the state of Athens. One of the major themes deals with the question of wisdom and how this leads to a virtuous life. As Socrates is explaining to Cebes some of his thoughts, he brings up his idea of the best kind of wisdom. Socrates says that this comes from reason alone, and is distanced as far as possible from the distractions of the body. According to Socrates, the things of this world:…

This dialogue is sometimes referred to as Socrates swan song. It is Important to be familiar with a summary of the Phaedo. It takes place in the town of Phlius, Echecrates encounters Phaedo a friend of Socrates' who was there in his final hours. Echecrates wants to hear the story from a first-hand, and presses for information. Phaedo explains a number of Socrates' friends were gathered in his cell prior to his execution. Some of these people included Crito, and two philosophers who go by the…

In Phaedo, Socrates argues that learning is recollecting knowledge, meaning that the knowledge we have acquired, was recalled from our previous lives. This means that we would have had to been exposed to this knowledge before we were born, which Socrates uses to argue that our souls are immortal. Socrates states “according to this, we must at some previous time have learned what we now recollect. This is possible only if our soul existed somewhere before it took on this human shape” (Plato,…

Socrates’ most prevelant lesson, seen throughout Phaedo, is that our lives on the physical earth must focus on the greater good of the soul. In order to do so, we must remove ourselves as much as possible from our body’s wrongful urges and desires because they threaten our desired relationship with our soul. All true and good philosophers focus their overall existence and way of life on this knowledge. With that being said, one might question why we possess these natural yet corrupted bodily…

In this essay I will be stating three different arguments first, the relationship between the body and the soul in the Phaedo. Second, I will be stating how Plato’s argument from affinity support his view. And last but not least, the reason why a true philosopher is unafraid of death. There are two classes of things, visible and invisible. Visible things are those we know that exist because they have a form and the invisible things are those we cannot see, they have no form. Many people…