Analyzing Plato's Arguments On Immortality

In this paper, I will utilize Plato’s argument on immortality, the ability to live forever, on the soul. Plato was the first to argue against immortality and in his book, Phaedo, he has three arguments on immortality: The Cyclical Argument, The Argument from Recollection, and The Affinity Argument. Socrates believes that the “souls of the dead in the underworld” come from people who are living today and that the “living souls come back of those from the dead.” In Plato’s first argument, The Cyclical Argument, is about opposites. He believes that everything comes from opposites. Something that was “larger” must necessarily have been “smaller” before.1a For example, if a person was small, than he must be the opposite after, which would make