8. Life after Death: Plato's approach
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- 8. Life after Death: Plato's approach
- Dualist
- Two separate entities (body/soul separate)
- The soul is:
- Eternal
- Perfect
- Changeless
- Immortal
- Part of Noeton/experiences Forms (Truth)
- Anamesis (remembering Forms)
- Plato's argument supports both disembodied (not in the body) and an embodied (in body) argument
- When the soul goes to the Noeton = disembodied
- When the soul is reborn into a new body
- Reincarnation (metempsychosis)
- It is embodied existence after death
- Reincarnation (metempsychosis)
- All three parts of the soul always conflict
- Found in 'Phaedrus'
- Charioteer
- Rational element on the soul
- Black horse
- Appetitive
- Bodily needs
- Dies with body
- White horse
- Spiritual element
- Virtues, e.g. courage
- Leads the rational/soul to noeton
- Divisions of the soul
- Spirited
- Our will/virtues (e.g. courage)
- Appetitivie
- Body's needs (e.g. greed)
- Rational
- Intellectual/thinking - seeking truth - rational takes control of irrational parts to live a virtuous life
- Spirited
- The Body: Horaton
- "The body is the source of endless trouble"
- Burden/hindrance (e.g. requires food)
- Fears and endless foolery
- Fills us with loves and lusts
- Diseases
- "takes away from us all power of thinking at all"
- Soul wants to be free of empiricism and illusion (eikasia) and be free to experience the Free and true knowledge
- Body is prison to our soul, just as the cave was the prison in the analogy
- "The body is the source of endless trouble"
- The Myth of Er
- The Republic Book 10
- Eschatological legend
- Man named Er died in battle
- When the bodies of those who died in battle are collected, ten days after his death, Er's remains undecomposed
- Two days later he revives and tells of his journey in the afterlife, how the souls of dead are judged
- In judgement moral people are rewarded and immoral people are punished after death -reincarnation
- Dualist
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