Phaedo

In the mind of philosophers, the idea of a true education is arguable. Throughout the centuries, multiple different philosophers produce a new concept of what true education is, for example, Plato and Descartes. Plato takes over Socrates work and keeps his legacy going in his writings. Additionally, the introducing of the idea of knowledge of the true forms and the necessity of knowledge of reality leading to a true self-knowledge. In the same way, “The Matrix” forces the main character, Neo to…

Death, from a scientific perspective, is a phenomenon that everyone on this planet must go through, regardless of their gender, social class, nationality etc. No matter who you are or what you are, death is something that we will all be faced with at some point in our lives. If death is to be expected in life, then why are we humans, as a race, so deathly afraid of it occurring? Seeing as how many people and cultures view death as being a sad event, it must be said that people like Socrates…

the brain’s mental processes, which I will expound upon at a later point. As well as forming virtues, the soul also reasons through desire and emotion (such as the desire to learn), and can have beliefs about objects of desire. However, according to Phaedo, the range of activities the soul may complete is far narrower than the range of activities the mind may complete. Though the soul does form desires related to imperceptible things, it will not form bodily desires such as “I am hungry” or “I…

Over the past two thousand years, professors, students and philosophers have studied Socrates’ sayings with much admiration on his wisdom. Socrates’ most prestigious words come bravely when he is facing his own death. In Socrates’ last dialogue, the Phaedo, Socrates argues for the existence of the soul by giving four arguments as to why the soul is eternal. He argues the argument from opposites, argument from the equal also known as the theory of recollection, the argument from affinity, and the…

“Socratic Method” in which Socrates and his interlocutors participate in a form of inquiry in which Socrates asks questions to stimulate critical thinking. Plato uses Socrates and his Socratic Method along with other theories in his dialogues “Meno” and “Phaedo” to prove what he believes is the correct way to do philosophy. The “Meno” dialogue focuses on Meno’s attempts to define virtue while Socrates…

This separation frees the soul from the body which Plato calls purification (Phaedo 67 c). With this separation the soul is now able to access ultimate reality. With the attachment to the fleshy body, the soul has been trapped and unable to fully understand truth. With this belief, Plato views death as something that is necessary…

mathematical ones and was the first to be printed under his own name (1764). “His most celebrated work however was, Phädon, oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele (1767; “Phaedo, or on the Immortality of the Soul”), defended the immortality of the soul against the materialism prevalent in his day; his title reflects his respect for Plato’s Phaedo.” In 1774 Moses had a nervous breakdown due to a dispute over Christianity with theologian J.C Lavater. Mendelssohn was soon involved in a new…

certain circumstances? Throughout this essay I will view the idea of different schools of philosophy and philosophers who have attempted to answer these questions. From the school of rationalism Plato implies his philosophy of suicide in Phaedo. In Phaedo, Plato states that suicide is morally wrong because it removes one prematurely from situations in which god has placed us in. However, Plato finds four exceptions that gives one the right to take his or her own life. I) When the…

Descartes’ idea that the mind and body are separate is called the “mind-body dualism”. Dualism is the state of being divided, meaning that our mind as humans, and our body are not used as one, but accent each other to make us what we are. He has different arguments in Meditations On First Philosophy that the mind is its own thing and different than the body and brain. He reassures that the mind, as we know, is a thing we use to think and the body is not what we use to think. Therefore, making…

sought for any salvation or repentance from their gods will not look forward to judgment day, seeing death as a bad ending in their life. In conclusion, Socrates cannot determine whether death is a good thing since everyone has different lives. In Phaedo, even though he made death sound like it was a good thing, he was indicating how a philosopher should look at death; not generally as a person. Personally, it all depends on their past actions and beliefs that can determine if death can be a…