Nam Le Phil 210 9/22/09 Phaedo 1. a) 60b: Socrates remarks that pain and pleasure may seem to be opposites since we never experience both at the same time‚ but they are intimately connected to one another. Rarely‚ do we find one without the other. The pleasure that he experiences from being released from his chains is directly related to the pain that he experienced from being enchained. b) 67b: Death is the separation of the soul from the body. We shall be closest to knowledge (in
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Questioning the Immortality of the Soul Collin O’Gorman September 27‚ 2012 Philosophy 1001: Human Nature Section 104 During anyone’s last hours on Earth‚ they would probably want to spend time with loved ones and reflect on everything that has happened in their life. However‚ Socrates had different intentions; he instead wanted to spend the little time he had left to philosophize one last time with his friends. The topic of discussion was the soul and Socrates’ goal was to prove to everyone that
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In this paper I will explain Socrates’ agreement at 50 a-b of the Crito‚ and explain my reason why would not cause his fellow citizens harm by breaking the law. Specially I will show that people can actually create a positive. I will explain that Socrates argument and show how depends on how what the unjust causes. Then I will argue that this assumption is to be questioned under the fact that citizens are not necessarily affected by the law breakers‚ and that by doing something unjust can be moral
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DR. FAZLUL ISLAM EXISTENCE OF ETERNAL SOUL Highly energetic chemistry is believed to have produced a self-replicating molecule around 4 billion years ago and half a billion years later the last common ancestor of all life existed. The current scientific consensus is that the complex biochemistry that makes up life came from simpler chemical reactions. The beginning of life may have included self-replicating molecules such as RNA‚ and the assembly of simple cells.1‚ 2 Fig-1: DNA Double Helix
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contemplation of the Form (which results in the attainment of the Philosopher’s quest – true wisdom) death‚ the liberation of the soul‚ becomes a rite of passage into the everlasting enjoyment of that true wisdom. So‚ if the philosophers are lovers of wisdom‚ and if the true wisdom is invisible as the soul and if death liberates or separates the body from the soul so that the soul now has unlimited access to true wisdom‚ then the philosopher ought to be cheerful in the face of death because he is about
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The Phaedo is a story that is set on the last day of Socrates ’ life. The dialogue examines whether the human soul is immortal or not. Socrates does not fear death‚ but he looks it straight in the eye and thinks this is what a philosopher practices for. Socrates believes that the soul is immortal‚ and therefore‚ outlasts the body. Socrates defends his argument by trying to establish that things come to be from their opposite. In his argument‚ he implies that all things that can change are eternal
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The argument that is most convincing for the immortality of the soul is the “opposites” argument. I have found this one to be the most convincing considering the fact that I do believe that something that has an opposite had to had been generated from that opposite and reverse. Like for example‚ something being tall would of had to been smaller at first and the other way around. Tall could be generated from its opposite small‚ whereas it could be the other way around where small could be generated
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432746 Purpose: In this paper‚ I will evaluate Socrates’ argument from Phaedo for why philosophers should desire death‚ perhaps only secondly to wisdom. I will argue that Socrates unfairly characterizes the truthfulness of the senses‚ and therefore projects a pessimistic view of the philosopher’s virtue during life. This pessimism towards life in conjunction with arguments for an afterlife that liberates reason‚ seems to suggest that Socrates believes philosophers should desire death: a happy prospect
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Phaedo Philosophy is a vast field. It examines and probes many different fields. Virtue‚ morality‚ immortality‚ death‚ and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different topics which can be covered under the umbrella of philosophy. Philosophers are supposed to be experts on all these subjects. The have well thought out opinions‚ and they are very learned people. Among the most revered philosophers of all time was Socrates. Living around
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In Plato’s dialogue Phaedo‚ there are a series of arguments presented by Socrates as proofs for the existence of the soul after death. The final and most convincing argument works as a direct application of Socrates’ idea of the Forms. Socrates begins to examine the question of whether the soul exists after death by establishing the basis upon which his proof must function. Socrates takes his idea of Forms to be the most certain of all of his theories and so he contends that it ought to be the basis
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