How Does Plato Argue for the Immortality of the Soul?

In Plato's Phaedo, he describes the last days of Socrates. And in this justly famous dialogue, Socrates (or Plato speaking through him) provides four arguments for the immortality or release of the soul. For anyone who has wondered about the afterlife, this dialogue can provide conceptual clarity for the limits and prospects of reason when it comes to the things like the soul and its afterlife.
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[@Phorquieu]

Great talk about Plato and ideas of the soul. Very informative and helpful.

[@RodrigoSevilha1984]

Plato always gives good food for thought. I guess the right formula is that the soul is the form of the body, or even the form of the life of the body. This form must be unperishable as any other form, being simple and not composed of parts, like the body. The problem is the identity of this soul, since individuals are classically separated by matter and not by form, at least until we found Duns Scot and his idea of formal graduation of the principium individuationis. That finnaly would mean, philosophically and theologically, the everlastingness of the individual soul. But that came only in the 13th Century. A long journey.

[@wagraham]

Helpful! Thanks for this comment

[@Snowchapel]

Short answer… no.