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Journal 1

Plato's Highly Moral Concept of the Afterlife

 Plato defines death as the separation of the inside of a living creature that is the soul of its physical parts, i.e. the body. Moreover, the inner part of a person is less limited than his physical body. Plato suggests that the time is an element of a physical, sensual world. Other phenomena are eternal, and the wonderful phrase of Plato that is what we call time, there is a "moving, unreal reflection of eternity (Carroll, pp. 01)." In many passages, Plato discusses how the soul is separated from the body, can meet and talk with the souls of others, and as she moves from physical death to the next stage of existence, and how the new phase of its watch over spirits. He mentions that people can be met at the hour of death the boat that will carry them "on the other side" of their existence after death. In the Phaedo in a dramatic interpretation of the expressed idea that the body is a prison of the soul and that death is a release from this prison. In the first chapter, Plato defines (through the mouth of Socrates), the ancient view of death as a sleep and oblivion, but he does so only in order to finally give up and change the course of reasoning to 180 degrees. According to Plato, the soul comes into the human body from a higher and more sacred world, the birth of sleep and oblivion, as the soul, having been born in the body passes from a deep knowledge of the lower class and forgets the truth. Death, however, is the awakening and remembrance. Plato says that the soul, separated from the body, can think and reason more clearly than before, and to distinguish between things much clearer.

Socrates' last words have to do with a religious offering to Aesclepius, the god of healing (198). Socrates was not just another man for Plato. What was he?

The exact nature of the relationship between Socrates and Plato is entirely unknown. Nothing makes it possible to answer questions like at what age Plato met Socrates, and how long he attended. It is also unclear what role Plato occupied among the disciples of Socrates. These uncertainties are even more remarkable that all the dialogues of Plato, except Laws, depict Socrates, though not giving always the star. When, in the Phaedo, Plato lists the close of Socrates who witnessed his death, he emphasizes his own absence by this remark: "Plato, I believe, was sick.” This is quite puzzling because the wording is hypothetical in the mouth of the better informed. Despite the pervasiveness of Socrates in his work, we are not informed about the sentiments of Plato against his master (Kekes, pp. 46). The dialogues do indeed include more praise for Socrates, but spoken by the characters which we do not know for sure if we should consider them as spokesmen of Plato, although this is likely.

Comparison of Jesus and ...