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Phaedo Plato

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Plato wrote the last moments of Socrates life as he has his philosophical dialogue between Phaedo , Socatese and fellow discussants. Phaedo, on the way back home to Elis, came across with Echecrates and other phytagoreans. Echecrates asked Phaedo to tell them about Socratess final moments after he got sentenced to death by the Athenians. Pythagoreans were known to be followers of Socrates and his belief on the immortality of the soul. Phaedo, as requested by Echacrates, explained the moment by describing who were present at the dialogue. Among the discussant, Crito-an old friend, Simmias and Cebes of Thebes were present. Phaedo begins his story by telling them how astonished he was to be present to witness his friends death. Unlike him, Socrates was calm, appeared happy and full of words of wisdom as he died nobly. Let us see how the story begins. Socrates told his friends that philosophers should be willing and ready to die. (page 99,62a). He further explains that death means the separation of the body from its soul. The soul, as he describes it, is immortal and philosophers more than any other men should free their soul from their body as much as possible. To this description he provides four arguments. The first argument was that everything comes from its opposite. Then if something smaller comes to be, it will come from something larger before, which becomes smaller. and the weaker comes to be form the stronger and the swifter form the slower. (page 108,71a). It is obvious that form this statement Socrates wants us to look around us, animals and plants. We clearly can see that everything was once small and gets bigger through time. Between this processes we can observe also there is another process. For example increase and decrease, as he describes it. The same scenario is implemented to life and death as well. If a soul is separated from the body (which is death) and it should come back to life after a period time. He further

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