Thursday, September 13, 2007

more on Phaedo

" Well then that being so, is it not natural for the body to dissolve easily, and for the soul to be altogether indossoluble, or nearly so?"

I thought throughout Socrates argument for the existence of the soul he assumed way too much. He kept on assuming that since the body could be seen it could be destroyed and since the soul was something that you could not see, you could not destroy it and it lasted forever. I believe everyone has a soul also but I just don't believe it for this reason. There are things that you can necessarily see like happiness etc... like saocrates talked about, but these are two different things. Things like happiness were ideas and a soul is not an idea. I would believe Socrates more if he talked about how humans have another part of them that acounts for their personality.

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