The Phaedo is a story that is set on the last day of Socrates ’ life. The dialogue examines whether the human soul is immortal or not. Socrates does not fear death‚ but he looks it straight in the eye and thinks this is what a philosopher practices for. Socrates believes that the soul is immortal‚ and therefore‚ outlasts the body. Socrates defends his argument by trying to establish that things come to be from their opposite. In his argument‚ he implies that all things that can change are eternal
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Around the town of Stratsonville‚ Alabama deep in the south there has always been a legend of a strange box that had can invoke great wonders. The box was said to be in the keeping of a crazy old wizard named Majular that was immortal. But of course no one really knew any truth about this legend though. Lars thought he did though. He would try to entice us with his story of Majular. "That old timer could vanquish you with the touch of a finger"‚ Lars would say. He always talked about finding
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Socrates Essay: Option 1 PHI/105 Larry Waggle Instructor Socrates Essay: Option 1 “There is nothing to fear but fear itself‚” this is a well known saying that I believe describes why Socrates did not fear death or the afterlife. Socrates thought that true philosophers spent their entire lives getting ready for death. So to be afraid of something that you have been preparing so long for is pointless. Socrates believed that only a philosopher that did not fear death could acquire courage and
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Lauren Cole ‘A disembodied existence after death is entirely possible’ Discuss. Plato takes a dualist view and therefore believes that a disembodied existence is entirely possible and the soul is distinct from the body. At our death‚ the soul is set free from the body where it has been ‘imprisoned’ and it is now able to achieve its ultimate goal and reach the world of the forms. The soul is the only immortal part of the body and survived the world of the forms before it came entrapped in the
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October 1‚ 2013 Geometric Argument: Are Souls truly immortal and know all? In the Meno‚ Socrates tries to walk Meno through the discovery of if virtue can be taught. Along the way they come across the theory that if virtue can be taught then it is knowledge. If knowledge then it can be taught but the Geometric argument was brought up where a person can have the capacity to learn based on their previous life and their soul conjuring up prior knowledge to understand the topic. Socrates called upon
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The term “posttraumatic bliss” occurs after someone suffers physical or psychological trauma that causes a change in the way the person thinks about life. Hecht suggests that almost dying can realign you in a way that is the positive incarnation of trauma. (235) Hecht provides the example of a cancer survivor and how they live every day in exquisite gratitude because they are still alive and have survived through cancer. Hecht tell us that throughout history people have tried to give themselves a
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Socrates believed in dualism. This means that he believed in both the body and a soul. He believed that when a person dies their soul separates from their body. Socrates was cheerful when he approached his death because he believed that as a philosopher he has been preparing for his death for his whole life. Philosophy‚ according to Socrates‚ is a lifetime of devotion “to a cultivation of the soul and mind- a meletei nekron‚ a “getting oneself ready for death.”” This means that during our lifetime
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Afterlife What is the first thing that comes up in your head when you hear the word-“Afterlife”? Is it eerie? Is it intriguing? Does thinking about it make a chill run down your spine? In our busy lives we often forget to even ponder over topics like these‚ specially the youngsters who may find this absurd and too philosophical a topic to give a thought to. But isn’t this something worth thinking about? Something that has been debated over thousands of years of our existence which might actually
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The aim of this paper is to attempt to argue against a few of Samuel Scheffler’s claims that human life is only valued if there are others to come after our deaths‚ and to try to prove the possibility of our actions having value despite an apocalyptic event occurring‚ if we can look at our lives from an existentialist point of view. In his paper‚ Scheffler uses a scenario known as the Doomsday Scenario to justify why he believes value of life is dependant on our collective continuance. The Doomsday
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Immortal Jellyfish In the history of alchemy‚ the only way to achieve immortality is to drink the elixir of life‚ or to create the legendary philosopher’s stone. For centuries‚ many alchemists searched but failed to find the secrets to immortality. But‚ surprisingly‚ one organism already obtains immortality without the elixir of life or the philosopher’s stone. Turritopsis nutricula‚ otherwise known as the immortal jellyfish‚ is a type of jellyfish that can revert back to a younger stage after
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