PHIL 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1: Cebes
23 Jan 2017
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Socrates states he is feeling pleasure from his pain: locked in prison facing execution. He states that a fellow philosopher should follow him: referring to the philosopher killing himself. Takes the request back because it is wrong to kill oneself. Socrates states: men are in a kind of prison. (their bodies: gods are their guards in this prison. It would be wrong to break from that prison: killing yourself would be wrong. Cebes questions why socrates believes that a philosopher should be willing to die: cebe"s argument. Human"s are his possession: men should not resent leaving his service. Socrates begins his argument to why a man who has truly spent his life in philosophy is right to be of good cheer in the face of death". Death is real: is separation of the soul from the body. Philosophers should not be concerned with worldly pleasures: should despise them.
