Essays Tagged: "Cebes"

Recollection: Fact or Fiction?

s comes into their mind. This is recollection, just as someone, on seeing Simmias, often recollects Cebes, and there are thousands of other such occurrences."Here he introduces the basics of recollect ...

(4 pages) 65 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Phaedo: The Immortality of the Soul

The philosophical discussion begins as Cebes brings up Socrates' Theory of Recollection, which claims that all learning is recollection. Si ... ve acquired knowledge of them in some past life that they forgot at the moment of birth.Simmias and Cebes agree that Socrates has shown that the soul existed before birth, but they remain unconvinced ... born from out of death. Bearing in mind that the soul has to be re-born after it dies, Simmias and Cebes are forced to acknowledge that it must continue to exist after death.This section of the text, ...

(4 pages) 97 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

It is 300BC, you are a Platonist. Your friend, also a student, has been condemned to death by the Athenian court. Write him a letter preparing him for his last hours.

opinions on the nature of the soul.Do you remember that I recounted the story passed down to me by Cebes and Simmias about Socrates' last dialogue before his death? Do you remember I said that the sa ... fate.If you will indulge me then, I will seek to convince the child within you (as Socrates did for Cebes and Simmias) that death is no hobgoblin and that he need not be afraid when he is alone in the ...

(11 pages) 30 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Philosophical discussion regarding Socrates' Theory of Recollection

The philosophical discussion begins as Cebes brings up Socrates' Theory of Recollection, which claims that all learning is recollection. Si ... them and know them again. This is why Socrates claims that all learning is recollection.Simmias and Cebes agree that Socrates has shown that the soul existed before birth, but they remain unconvinced ... born from out of death. Bearing in mind that the soul has to be re-born after it dies, Simmias and Cebes are forced to acknowledge that it must continue to exist after death.Socrates seems mostly int ...

(4 pages) 41 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

"The Immortality of the Soul" by Phaedo

n that I see as being unrealistic, needing further explanation to be worthy of consideration. Also, Cebes refutation to this statement, saying that eventually, the soul, will wear out and get old and ... en leading up to: "tell me what it is, by whose presence in a body, that body will be living" (65). Cebes answers, appropriately, "soul." Socrates clarifies that he means that soul always brings life, ...

(7 pages) 90 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Socrates In Phaedo

t be approached through the reason. (65d) After the explanation of soul's separation from the body, Cebes brings up a point that men are very prone to disbelief. They fear that when the soul leaves th ... , straightway it flies away and is no longer anywhere, scattering like a breath or smoke. (70a) For Cebes comment, Socrates counter with another question that weather or not the souls of the dead exis ...

(6 pages) 18 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

‘Plato shows that belief in the soul can be justified.’ Discuss.

e justified through logical argument. His dialogue Phaedo is mainly concerned with these arguments; Cebes, the person who is in dialogue with Socrates, suggests that perhaps the soul just disappears, ...

(6 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Socrates in the Apology

divine, it's immortal, intelligible, uniform, and indissoluble. By stating his ideas to Simmias and Cebes, they both have questions about his theories. After going into their raised questions, Socrate ... harmony and the lyre do indeed clash with Socrates' previous theory that learning is recollection. Cebes on the other hand, his argument states that just because a soul out lives the body doesn't nec ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Phædo

ng because he thinks that he will also find good friends and masters in the afterlife. Right after, Cebes mentions how many people do not believe in the afterlife and that "they think that after [the ... y this to the subject that they began with, the plausibility of an immortal soul.After Socrates and Cebes come to a conclusion that living and being dead are opposites, they begin to discuss the two p ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy