PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Optical Illusion
7 Dec 2013
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Someone comes to being alive dead (dying) We must expect reciprocity if nature is imperfect. First, there will never be a time when nothing will be alive. Second, there is no spontaneous generation (ex nihilo nihil fit) Thirdly, if the living has some other origin than the dead, it would be exhausted and everything would be dead. In a closed process, where the living become the dead or the dead become the living, even though it is limited, it is never the less infinite due to reciprocity. In the process of demonstrating that the soul is immortal and therefore it never dies. The soul that leaves socrates body is his soul, but the human being we knew is dead. His soul takes no personal memories of socrates, it only has knowledge of the forms. The next incarnation will be appropriate to his moral work. Something comes to be older having being younger and does so through the process of aging.
