One of Platos most famous passages …show more content…
Not even the parents or family of these people claim Socrates is a corrupting influenc
In Platos most important passages of many, the phaedo, I Echecrates encourages Phaedo , who is from of Elis, explain the story of Socrates’ death. Socrates had been fated to commit suicide by drinking hemlock as poison and before that he requested that he spend time with his fellow philosophers and companions of his long life. Phaedo states that among many friends were were Crito and two Pythagorean philosophers, Simmias and Cebes.
Socrates says to to his friends that" a true philosopher should look forward to death. "The purpose of the philosophical life is to free the soul from the needs of the body. Since the moment of death is the final separation of soul and body, a philosopher should see it as the realization of his aim. Unlike the body, the soul is immortal, so it will survive death." For Socrates had four argument a to prove that the soul …show more content…
But Socrates explains to Simmias and Cebe that it's ok to be against is beliefs. Simmias supports his opposition while talking about methodology. He is against Socrates third argument, he argument of affinity. Simmias claims that "certainty is either impossible or difficult it, would show a weak spirit not to make a compete investigation. If at the end of this investigation one fails to find the truth ,one should adopt the best theory and cling to it like a raft either until one dies or comes upon something sturdier. For one might put forth a similar argument which claims that soul is like handing and be body is open a lyre and its strings." We really do suppose the soul is something of this kind, that is like a harmony or proper mixture of bodily elements like the hot and cold or dry and