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
    • 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
    • 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 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

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