With the dialogues of the Meno and Phaedo, Plato discusses the ideas of recollection and immortality of the soul in general. ... Phaedo, the second dialogue of Plato's theory, states that only through the forms and absolutes, an individual can have knowledge. ... The other Platonic idea that is shown in the Phaedo is the idea of the immortality of the soul. ... "(The Search for Knowledge 90) which states that the immortality of the soul is the foundation of Plato's theory of recollection and further proves it so. ... I believe that through the three dialogues of Plato, his theory...

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The Theory of Forms, which vastly underpins western religious philosophy, attempts to explain our seemingly instinctive moral knowledge. ... In the Phaedo, he reports a conversation in which Socrates argues that the nature of knowledge may demonstrate the soul to pre-exist the conception of the body. ... Plato used this argument as the basis for his doctrine on the Forms. ... This notably strengthened Plato's theory of an independent standard of goodness. ... In a Christian application, the Thomist argument from the gradation of being, was clearly influenced by the Theory of Forms. ...

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Plato believes that an individual is human only to the extent that he resembles or participates in the Form "humanness." ... This is where Plato's theory of the Soul is established. ... A person can therefore suffer externally, and remain happy because there is harmony internally, in his soul ("Plato Theory of the Soul," online). ... Wisdom, Courage and Temperance are directly related to one's own self-control; Justice flows outward from this harmony, and is directed towards other people through acts of charity and kindness (Plato Theory of the Soul," online). ... This is...

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As Plato once said "philosophy begins in wonder". ... (Magee, 1998) The belief differences between Socrates and Plato are hard to determine because they are based solely on Plato's writing, making them biased . ... One point that Plato and Socrates did disagree (according to Plato) was on the aspect of the human soul. In Plato's dialogue, Phaedo, which documents Socrates" final hours, Socrates discusses the fact that the soul is merely an extension of the body that dies with it. ... Aside from many complex discussions of Plato's dialogues, another pertinent topic that ...

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Philosophers, for example Plato, were believers in Physis. ... Plato agrees with Parmenides in many ways. ... In this sense, Plato is too a rationalist (122). ... Parmenides started rationalism and Plato continued with his theme. ... Plato also agrees with Heraclitus, "about the world revealed to us through our senses (122)." ...

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