This book, Phaedo is the final part of Plato's (427-347 BCE) trilogy about the trial and death of his teacher, Socrates (469-399 BCE) Phaedo repeat that conversation to his friend after that. In that conversation Socrates argued with his friends about justice and immortal of humans' soul. He seperates human body and soul, cause human sense about world and knowledge isn't reliable, human body should be a obstacle to find pure knowledge and wisdom. Real philosophers is always practice to death, they didn't afraid to death. He argued that a pair of contemporary events isn't perish if one of them is disappeared ...If the immortal is also imperishable, it is impossible for the soul to perish when death comes against it. For, as our argument has shown, it will not admit death and will not be dead, just as the number three, we said, will not be even, and the odd will not be even, and as fire, and the heat in the fire, will not be cold. In the case of the immortal; if it is conceded that the immortal is imperishable, the soul would be imperishable as well as immortal, but if not, further argument is needed. The most inspire sentence isn't his argument, but the beautiful "real" earth he imagined in the end. What he thoughts called "should be real" is absolutely misconception nowadays. But he is always believed human can achieved that real beautiful world and face death peacefully. This is then is why a man should be of good cheer about his soul who in his life has rejected the pleasures and ornaments of the body, thinking they are alien to him and more likely to do him harm than good, and has sought eagerly for those of learning, and after adorning his soul with no alien ornaments, but with its own proper adornment of self-restraint and justice and courage and freedom and truth, awaits his departure to the other world, ready to go when fate calls him. How wonderful person he is!
He seperates human body and soul, cause human sense about world and knowledge isn't reliable, human body should be a obstacle to find pure knowledge and wisdom. Real philosophers is always practice to death, they didn't afraid to death.
He argued that a pair of contemporary events isn't perish if one of them is disappeared ...If the immortal is also imperishable, it is impossible for the soul to perish when death comes against it. For, as our argument has shown, it will not admit death and will not be dead, just as the number three, we said, will not be even, and the odd will not be even, and as fire, and the heat in the fire, will not be cold. In the case of the immortal; if it is conceded that the immortal is imperishable, the soul would be imperishable as well as immortal, but if not, further argument is needed.
The most inspire sentence isn't his argument, but the beautiful "real" earth he imagined in the end. What he thoughts called "should be real" is absolutely misconception nowadays. But he is always believed human can achieved that real beautiful world and face death peacefully.
This is then is why a man should be of good cheer about his soul who in his life has rejected the pleasures and ornaments of the body, thinking they are alien to him and more likely to do him harm than good, and has sought eagerly for those of learning, and after adorning his soul with no alien ornaments, but with its own proper adornment of self-restraint and justice and courage and freedom and truth, awaits his departure to the other world, ready to go when fate calls him.
How wonderful person he is!