Plato's beliefs about the soul SMB part 2

Plato's belief on the soul:

Believed that Body and soul were 2 seperate entities (making him a dualist), the body composing the temporary and physical aspect and the soul the eternal and essential aspect. According to Plato the soul is only shortly unified with the body before moving on. An example of this would be a person driving a car where the car is the body and the person the soul, the person drives the car for a certain amount of time and eventually leaves to do something else.

Socrates beleived that after death the logic and intelligence lives on in our soul, allowing us to surpass bodily demands for greater contemplation and higher thought. Life is the essence of the soul and must have a neccessary existence, for the death of the soul is simply illogical. 

Plato believed it was a chain of rebirth, you are born, you die then you are reborn again

To try and explain his belief of the souls immortality he uses the story of a slave boy.

Meno's slave boy:

- Meno was a young slave boy with no education that was given a geomatry puzzle

- Though he struggled the boy eventually solved the problem through questioning and reasoning

- Given his lack of education this proved to Plato that he must have attained some…