Plato's Four Arguments Of Immortality Essay

Spoken by a true student, Plato, is a classic to all in the world of philosophy and literature. Plato in the dialogue Phaedo, argues the immortality of the soul in four arguments. Taught by his exemplary teacher, Socrates, he learned the four arguments for immortality of the soul. To which, Plato recounts the last hours of Socrates life, and in turn becomes the eulogy to his beloved teacher. In reference to, Socrates death, he was stricken to commit suicide by drinking hemlock, surrounded by a number of friends, including Plato. To where, Socrates expresses to his friends to look forward to death, and that the soul is immortal and will survive death. Thus, leading us to the four arguments of immortality. Notably, the first argument for immortality is known as the, argument from generation out of opposites. Meaning that opposites generally attract, as an end result everything comes from its opposite. For example, life is the opposite of death, whereas death becomes living. Like Socrates said, “the living have come from

Through the process of learning we remember things and seek to inquire the necessary information when it is called upon. Consider the source, “what we call learning is really just recollection, if that is true, then surely what we recollect now we must have learned at some time before; which is impossible unless our souls existed somewhere before they entered his human shape. So in that way too it seems likely that the soul is immortal.” (pg. 120) In relations, to this statement on to the view of a man named, Cebes. Likewise, it is in retrospect of the knowledge you learn before one’s self. This theory/ argument is seen as a motivation via the “paradox of inquiry”. Socrates said, true knowledge of the eternal and unchanging forms. Hence, the arguments regard to say that the soul has a life beyond the