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  • Essay / Socrates' Arguments on Immortality - 1137

    Socrates was a philosopher true to his word and his death was ultimately felt by his closest friends and disciples. In Phaedo, Socrates reunites with his closest friends during his final hours as they await his death. At this point, Socrates prepares for death and seems to welcome it. Although death may seem like a frightening and inevitable fate that we all must face at some point; Socrates considered death a privilege, primarily because he believed the soul was immortal. As a result, Socrates provides arguments for why he believed the soul was immortal and although all of his arguments lacked unconvincing evidence, he raises some good points. In this article, I will talk about Socrates' most and least convincing arguments about immortality, and I will explain what Socrates' problem with Anaxagoras was. Above all, Socrates believed that when a person dies, it is the body that appears to die while the soul continues to die. live and exist. Although many have suggested that when the body dies, the soul dies with it, Socrates provides numerous arguments to prove otherwise. The arguments presented included the argument from reincarnation, the argument from opposites, the argument from remembrance, and the argument from forms. The argument that convinced me the most was that of the argument of forms because Socrates presents his most convincing arguments here and it is the most effective. On the other hand, the argument that seemed least convincing to me was that of recollection and reincarnation, because both arguments fail to fully support the idea of ​​the immortality of the soul. The Forms argument was the most convincing in proving that the soul is immortal thanks to the explanation and examples provided by Socrates...... middle of paper ...... edo, 98c). Socrates instead believes that the workings of the universe should be described through theories "which study the truth of things by means of words (Phaedo, 99e) and arrive at conclusions about why certain things are as they are." are. a strong argument for each of his arguments to prove immortality. The most convincing argument for me was that of forms while the least effective argument was that of memory. Although Socrates' arguments were well supported, each argument had its flaws and always left unanswered questions. The problem Socrates had with Anaxagoras was that they had a different view of how the workings of the universe should be described. Nevertheless, Socrates recognizes Anaxagoras and does not question his teachings despite the different perspectives on the functioning of the universe..