PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eryximachus, Agathon, A Priori And A Posteriori

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1A03
• Professor: Barry Allen

Document Summary

All his work in philosophy is in preparation for his death. Arguments for survival of the soul: all things come into being from their opposite. To have come from the dead a soul must exist despite being dead. (the idea of existence and being alive; souls exist even in dead stuff: a) our understanding of perfection is independent of sense experience. A priori knowledge: independent of experience. (the idea of this exists) A posterior knowledge: depends on experience. (concepts that can only be acquired from sensory experience, opposite of a priori, such as the colour green) But will it survive the bodys death: yes, because the soul that exists before birth must come from something dead. So a soul is a soul regardless of association with a living body. We do not require a living body to be a living soul: a soul that can dissolve and scatter must be composite.