PHI 2380 Chapter 1-77a: 2015-03-04 - Phaedo.docx
21 Mar 2015
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The work of the philosophy is to free the soul from the body (the same process that happens in death). The man who finds no pleasure in material things (the philosopher) is thought to be close to death. The philosopher frees himself, as best as he can, from the physical senses, in order to achieve higher reason (truth). Things come to be out of opposites (and opposites out of opposites). The process of becoming from each into the other. If being dead comes from being alive, then being alive comes from being dead, which means that our souls are immortal (because they never die, they always exist somewhere): explain the view that learning is recollection. Recollection necessarily means that we already learned previously, we are simply remembering.
