Analysis Of Phaedo

element in life. One can take a path of wickedness or righteousness, and this will be weighted heavily on the soul after physical body dies. Socrates feels content with his decision to stay in prison and thus not to be unjust to the laws of Athens and Crito is left nothing more to say. In Phaedo, there is an immense form of development and the dialogue focuses primarily on death and the immortality of the soul. It starts with Phaedo, Simmias and Cebes, all interlocutors who recount the story of Socrates execution. This dialogue is unique because it contains discussions of the philosopher, a soul’s immortality through the opposites, recollection, affinity and the last arguments. The philosopher is capable to relate to death and understand

The soul maintains its existence because everything comes into being through its opposite state. For example, for something to come into existence in a form that is big, it must have been necessarily at one point been small. The eternal to temporal, the unchanging to change, real to appearance, being and becoming, are all opposites that coincide with one another. For something to be dead it must pass through the state of being alive, given that life and death are at opposite states. Socrates says that it must be a cyclical process for a thing to proceed in a straight line with no way back then the whole world would be dead. Socrates solidifies this argument by asking Cebes on what is opposite to the living. Cebes response is that death is opposite being alive and therefore, Socrates responds that everything that dies must come back to life for it is to thrive. If A comes to be from B, then there is a process of becoming from B to A. Things move from one state to another. For one to be awake it must have been asleep, hence one went from being asleep to being in the realm of awake. Things come into being due its composition of previously existing parts. Energy can’t be annihilated and the soul must have existed before it was born. The opposite of life is death, thus opposites rely upon one another. “If, everything that partakes in life were to die, and after things died they… inevitably

Socrates rejects the idea that attunement and recollection to coincide with each other. This is because attunement should be impossible if the soul and body are not in existence. The attunement is the result of parts that cannot be controlled. Socrates states that the parts that make the lyre, the wood and the strings are similar to the body with attunement being the lyre itself. The parts that make up the lyre determine the form, shape and quality of the instrument itself. And if this were similar to the composition of the body, then the soul would be incapable of opposing the body. Socrates further opposes attunement because it would make all souls to be equally virtuous and wise. If vice is the opposite of virtue, then vice should not exist in any