Phaedo's 'Separation Of The Soul In Socrates'

At the beginning of the dialogue Phaedo analyses and discusses with Echecrates about his encounter with Socrates before his trail and before he drank the poison, which lead to his death. However, Phaedo began his conversation by explaining the mission of the ship that has to travel from Delos to Athens before Socrates execution. Further, Phaedo claims is one reason why Socrates was in prison for a long time between his trial and execution. During that time Socrates was in prison, his acquaintance and followers were able to visit him occasionally before his execution.

On the contrary, when Socrates was released from his chains when he friends arrived, he requested the Xantippe should head back home because she was lamenting about the execution

The true philosopher ought to abstain from bodily desires and seek after the soul. The philosophers such as Simmias, Cebes and Socrates argues about the importance of the natural soul and insight about the good life. Moreover, the reason why most people practice philosophy that was discussed in the chapter, which deals with “does who practice philosophy in the right way, we say, who always most want to free the soul; and this release and separation of the soul from the body is the preoccupation of the philosophers.” Also, the philosophers explains that those who practice philosophy are in training of dying and they fear death. However, a true philosopher desires to seek after wisdom and an afterlife, which is the soul. On the other hand, the philosophers analysis the different between equal objects and equality and how it ties to the soul. Later, the philosophers argues that the soul exist before human beings were born and knowledge also, but human beings lose their intellect once they are born. However, after human beings are born, they recollect the ideas that humans have lost. Nevertheless, the soul investigates by itself it passes into realm of what is pure, ever existing, immortal, and unchanging, and being akin. In addition, the soul is altogether more like that which always exist in the same state rather than like that which does not. Later, Socrates distinguish between the soul and the body. He states, “The soul is more like the divine, deathless, intelligible, uniform, indissoluble, always the same itself, whereas the body is most like that which is human, mortal, multiform, unintelligible, soluble, and never consistently the