Plato, Phaedo | Philosophy as Preparation for Death | Philosophy Core Concepts

[@HippieChick9]

Philosophers are preparing for death? - liberation of the soul (still living) from the body - philosophers look forward to death (eternity) - don’t concern themselves with bodily desires, pleasures - focus on attaining knowledge - contemplation/dialectic - practice the real virtues - wisdom as purification -To Socrates, what we really are is the soul.- The body is just a shell that we are stuck with and which makes all sorts of demands upon us and which we are deceived into thinking is us. Souls aren't really gendered or really have an age, but has to be very very old Philosophy becomes preparation for dying. (not writing your will--that is worldly) It is a concern with what is most us--according to Plato--our immortal souls, and what's going to happen to them. Plato also thinks that if you do this, if you carry out this process of disciplining, you will free yourself from the fate of most of the other souls, which is to be trapped in this material world.

[@trenthogan4212]

I find this series VERY helpful. You have a gift for shedding light on some of the more subtle concepts as well as giving insight and means to aplly these concepts to evey day life. Thank you.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you're finding the series particularly helpful!

[@goodleshoes]

I gotta say! I've been listening to this playlist and it's pretty amazing! Great job.

[@GregoryBSadler]

here's a Plato Core Concept video for a Saturday night. . .

[@MrMarktrumble]

thank you.

[@CANT_FEAR_YOUR_OWN_WORLD]

Very good video!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Eaglesfan4life352]

How is the word spelled at 12:10? Thank you

[@GregoryBSadler]

askesis

[@selsickr]

I think that when Socrates says all philosophy is a preparation for death he really saw ot that way. Socrates had spiritual experiences. There was his daemom who he sometimes talked about but if we look he must of had others as well. For Socrates he was not talking about an abstract notion but something he actually experienced. Socrates had escaped from the cave and only came back to help others. He had actually seen the light .

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes, of course he saw matters that way. It's a consistent theme in his teachings. Notice that he provides reasonings and arguments, though, instead of appealing to "spiritual experiences"

[@danielhanna9742]

My body exists for my brain.

[@GregoryBSadler]

And your brain for your soul, Plato would say (since the video is about his work and thought)

[@chris65536]

Didn't Plato and the ancient Greeks believe in reincarnation? Isn't that one way how they explain why philosophy is more about ways of bringing knowledge gained in previous lives into consciousness than it is trying to put new knowlege into people? Also, didn't Heidegger have something to say that the purpose of life is preparation for death, not that just philosophy is is preparation for death, but that life itself is?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Plato, yes. Ancient Greeks more generally, no.

[@aayarabiea5764]

I dont understand how this part of phaedo relates to the forms

[@GregoryBSadler]

Who says it has to? There's other parts, aren't there?