Excerpt From Phaedo Reading Essay Analyze: Socrates begins by explaining the opposites of things that are physical and nonphysical to his student. He begins with several examples such as saying asking his student that is it true that all opposites are produced of its own opposite in which the student agrees with. He goes on to give more examples saying, “good and evil”, “just and unjust”, etc. He then continues his phrases with many more examples of how opposites are generated from itself in order for it to be true. Near the end of the passage we see Socrates delves into the opposition of life and death. He says we can conclude that life Is opposite of death and vice versa. He asks his student is life whether a thing or a person generated …show more content…
We all know that the opposite of life is death and the opposite of death is life. There is no argument or an opposition that can prove that very statement as false. None. We know that as we sleep we wake up only to continue the same cycle over and over. We can therefore apply the same logic to life and death. Just as when you throw something high it must have been low and when something is low it must have been high. Same can be said about the saying “Ones man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. Then it can be said that one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. For every death, there is an equal life that is born. In Socrates beliefs, he says the when the soul resides in the world below after death. If we look at this logically anything that goes below has the opposition of coming up. The same must be possible for the souls below to return to the world above and to revived into the world of the living. Therefore, I agree with and understand why this is true with the concept Socrates provided. With all the theoretical concepts that Socrates has provided with oppositions, to say that there isn’t life after death would seem farfetched with the conclusions Socrates