Similarities Between Plato And Socrates

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According to Socrates and Plato, a true philosopher welcomes death. What arguments are presented to support their beliefs?
Socrates/Plato believed that humans consist of body and soul (dualism) and that is one of the main reason that Socrates says that a true philosopher shouldn’t fear death because once the carnal flesh is put to death along with it natural desires the soul is free to experience this type of utopian realm of perfect equality and absolute beauty.
The first supportive argument used is the law of nature that opposites produce opposites and this process is a recurring, meaning just as being awake results from being asleep so Socrates conclude that this recurring process also pertains to life and death. Just as death results …show more content…

I believe it may give a person who has not been properly indoctrinated by something to ponder and question still arriving at the same point and that is more questions about is there life after death, heaven or hell and if I commit suicide which some believe is the same as murder but self-inflicted will I be accepted into a utopian eternity or a burning hell or maybe take the philosophical way out and choose reincarnation a theory present in Socrates/Plato’s Phaedo.

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone argues that the female body as being powerless because of social and political because of traditional Western Civilization’s irreconcilable differences between male dominance and female passivity. Sheets-Johnstone uses example of women being represented as holes especially when it comes to the genitalia also religion showing women to be second class citizens lacking something males have.

Women are look upon as simple sex objects there to be use at the will of man just a woman being in a room with men in Sheets-Johnstone eye they are at risk they don’t have to be presenting themselves in a provocative manner but will be look upon as nothing but a piece of meat. The ancient Greek’s portrayed them as something to be penetrated and

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