Plato, Phaedo | The Argument From Opposites | Philosophy Core Concepts

[@scod9746]

Thank you again Doctor! This video is useful for SCOD work.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Good to know

[@AsianTheDomination]

This is my favorite of the books on socrate's death. Very underrated. The analogy of bodily pleasures nailing the soul to the body was pretty impactful. I saw some problems with socrates argument on reincarnation though. In the physical sense all humans are created by the will of two humans, therefore in a way humanity has influence over how many lives are created, but we cannot create the soul since in this theory it already was. Since the population is constantly increasing, what is guaranteeing that there are enough souls for bodies?

[@GregoryBSadler]

They could have been somewhere else, I suppose

[@GregoryBSadler]

new Core Concept video -- one argument Socrates provides for the immortality of the soul. . . not the best argument, but an argument nonetheless

[@canis760]

Thank you for doing these! While getting my B.S. in physics,the study of philosophy was introduced to me by a friend, and once you start, you never really stop. It's hard to make it back to chit-chat with my old professors, and difficult to find people casually who want to discuss the latest read (Leibniz Monadology most recently). These dissertations you do allow me to get a more trained perspective on a lot of the text, and I can fit them in between jobs. It is greatly appreciated.

[@MrMarktrumble]

thank you

[@marcuspoisson5996]

Thank you. I am learning this argument for the first time and you helped me understand it a bit more from me just reading the text.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You’re welcome

[@scottscheiten1156]

"pretty soon nothing's right... if we eliminate the waking up pretty soon the whole world is asleep" i am pretty much sure that no one else got what that really means, including the precise fitting of context of the argument P.S. the world is asleep and nothing is right

[@anzamanto4407]

pretty sure that's not what he means

[@sarah041795]

is this cyclical understanding of life and death contradictory to his arguments of a more linear interpretation as seen in the Republic through society digressing through the various different forms culminating in tyranny?

[@GregoryBSadler]

No. You want to read the rest of the Republic, where there's a mythical discussion about the afterlife

[@PriyaGupta-yz7fr]

Sir,can this way of Plato justifying immortality of soul from generation of opposites can also justify existence of evil as then existence of evil is necessary for generation of its opposite i.e Good?If so,then via this argument can problem of evil would be solved? Thanks.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Plato doesn't doubt evil exists

[@PriyaGupta-yz7fr]

@@GregoryBSadler Oh,I see.Thankyou so much Sir.Your lectures are highly enlightening.

[@nap871]

Never a big fan of this argument. Appears to be a logical problem in the argument since Soc relies upon contraries to prove a contradiction. Death by definition means not living while less by definition doesn't mean not great. Still a contradiction even though Soc has his own personal definition of death. A counterargument beginning with the premise that Life comes from life might sway Soc's interlocutors here.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes, it's not a particularly good argument.

[@-9_9.-6_6.]

Thank you, very useful!

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!