I felt like we covered Phaedo pretty well in class today, but I still had a few things to throw out. My main thought was that since Socrates is about to die, doesn’t it make sense that he emphatically believes in an immortal soul and the afterlife? I can’t think of an example when a [...]
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So, I was thinking about Crito today in class (as I should have been) and when we started to talk about Civil Disobedience and Socrates, my main point that I kept in my little head was that Socrates didn’t have a problem with the Laws. Does anyone doubt that? I mean, he said himself that [...]
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