1. Socrates And The Immortality Of The Soul
We assume sense has been given to talk of the soul as something correlative with the body, as Plato does when the discussion starts and death is characterized as the beginning of the separate existence of the soul and of the separate existence of the body. ... The real argument starts when Cebes objects that the position depends on the assumption that the soul, or we might say, our mental activity aimed at understanding does actually hang together after the death of the body. ... Socrates says that when a person dies, he separates into a body and into a soul. What once was a composite are no...
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