Soul

thought about the relationship between the Body and Soul. The two thinkers Plato and Aristotle both had hypotheses concerning the body and soul. Plato was a duelist, trusting the body and soul where two separate parts to a man. Aristotle however did not. Plato trusted that the spirit was the absolute most vital part of a man and had faith in the significance of good ideas, thoughts on the after life. Plato imagined that…

Explain and assess the analogy of the soul and the state. The analogy of the soul and the state is a key method that Plato used in the Republic. According to Plato, studying the structure of a state is like studying a enlarged version of individual soul, as if they are small and large prints . This essay will outline how the analogy works in the context of the Republic. Restricted to length, the tripartite nature of the soul is assumed valid, despite there were opposite voices from scholars…

active intelligent souls must have existed before birth, for it to lose something at birth one must have had it before, thus to have any knowledge of the past or present requires the soul to actually exist. Simmias convinced with the theory of recollection,…

Human 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…

seem fascinated with death at times. Along with this fascination there is also a fascination in the debate on whether or not humans have souls and if one day our soul will move on. When we die will our soul go to the after life? Or will it just move on to a new body and a new person with reincarnation? The idea of surviving our deaths through the means of a soul taking us to the afterlife is one that seems to give some people hope about their futures. Because of this there is many different…

the effects on one’s happiness for those who live in a “city-state.” Plato focuses on two questions, “what is justice” and “what is the relation of justice to happiness?” Socrates answers these two questions by relating it back to the individual's soul and a city’s political community. One must want justice for all to create any political laws for a state to run by. Without man thriving to be just, there would be havoc and no sight of equity anywhere. This leads Socrates to believe that through…

First, there are also some similarities between Zeno and the Platonists and Peripatetics. Platonists admit that being is a body, and the corporeality of the soul. Moreover, Peripatetics acknowledge that soul is the principle of life in the organic body, and is inseparable from the body. Plus, Peripatetics attack on Plato and rejected the abstractness of the form, which could be also means that the form is incorporeal. This shows…

that the Doctrine does not account for how the soul ever came to know the knowledge. Socrates, at least in the Phaedo and Meno, makes no mention of how the soul learned all things, except that it learned them across its immortal “lifespan”. In essence, the regress problem affects Socrates’ argument. In trying to explain how humans can learn (or recollect) knowledge, Socrates merely shifts the burden of Meno’s paradox from a human learning things to a soul learning things.…

In this essay I aim to present both the Cyclical and Recollection arguments proposed by Socrates in the Phaedo, to prove the immortality of the soul. I will discuss the criticisms of the first to demonstrate its fallibility as an account for the soul’s immortality. The weaknesses of the second argument will also be mentioned. In evaluating which of the arguments better proves the soul’s immortality, the responses to the criticisms of the Recollection theory will indicate why it holds as the…

description of Plato’s philosophical thought and not simply a direct recollection of what was said by Socrates. Plato covers multiple themes, the most important of which being his idea of the “realm of the forms,” arguments for the mortality of the human soul, and a broader theme of a philosophical life being characteristic of a good life (Connolly 1). Being a dialogue, Phaedo is characterized as a conversation between two men: Phaedo and Echecrates. Echecrates is a philosopher who wants to…