Socrates. Plato`s Phaedo and Meno are about the immortality of the soul. With the view of Socrates’ experience, Plato believes that the soul is immortal as per the Phaedo. This paper will look at Plato’s four arguments for the immortality of the soul as the Phaedo and Meno, and the epistemological considerations that support his view and personal insights, which have developed it. In the dialogue, the Phaedo, Plato gives the account of the soul being immortal. Four arguments about the immortality
In Plato’s writings, he offers the Theory of Forms and a refutation of the Theory called the Third Man Argument. In this paper, I will state the Theory of Forms along with details about the nature of Forms and the Third Man Argument in order to demonstrate that the argument does not strongly refute the theory because the self-exemplification and the non-identity assumptions can be satisfied simultaneously. In Plato’s Theory of Forms, he describes Forms as being eternal, infinite, and unchanging entities
Plato argues in his Phaedo that “for us learning is no other than recollection” (Phaedo 22). Plato is hypothesizing that human beings do not obtain knowledge through learning in the common sense of the word, rather we simply “recollect” knowledge that was hidden in the mind. In short, learning is a form of remembering what was forgotten. Plato utilizes two seemingly basic premises to derive his conclusion that learning is indeed a type of remembering which, as a result, proves that knowledge learnt
Is our soul truly immortal? In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates states that the soul is immortal, as he provides 4 basic arguments. These arguments include: The Argument of Opposites, the Theory of Recollection, The Argument of Affinity [also known as the Argument of Scattering] and the Theory of Forms. The Theory of Recollection provides a strong argument that our souls are truly immortal. Based on the Theory of Recollection, I believe that our souls are truly immortal and they can also survive death.
Intro In Phaedo, Plato expressly uses the notion of equality to illustrate the way in which human souls acquire knowledge. His recollection argument for the existence of the soul attempts to link the means by which we acquire knowledge with the existence of an immortal soul. Necessarily, the basis for this argument is Socrates’ knowledge theory of recollection. In this paper, I will attempt to reconstruct the recollection argument and offer two specific objections. In Plato’s argument, there is
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