Socrates Immortality Of The Soul Analysis

In the excerpt read, Plato is contemplating the immortality of the soul, and how Socrates assured his student of soul remaining after his body dies. The dialogue occurs on the day that Socrates was to be put to death in Athens, and is occurring in the prison just prior to execution by Hemlock poisoning. The Cyclical Argument Plato is writing the dialogue of a conversation being had prior to Socrates’ execution, and part of that argument is focused on how the soul is surely immortal. Socrates uses examples of opposites, and how one exists because of another, yet will not accept the other. This can be seen when Socrates speaks about the imperishable soul that would not accept death in the first paragraph on page 46. Plato records this dialogue

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This means balance must within the opposite processes as well, because if increase did not balance out decrease, everything would continually get colder until it ceased to exist. We can see that transition occurs, as it is a physical change, and by seeing that it can change in either direction we must have a way to describe both. We cannot see the balance, yet we know it exists because the state has remained at a point that is stable enough to exist. Life and death would be opposites as on infers an existence, and the other refers to the void of life. The change would be defined as birth and death, because this is the point that the two come to be. We can’t see that there is a balance, but looking at more physical processes we have concluded that they must balance out if they exist. Applying the same concept here, we know that everything that dies must be reborn, because if this were not the case then everything would cease to exist, and life would be non-existent, or a