PHIL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Socratic Method, Physicalism, Thomas Nagel
Document Summary
Convicted of several charges awaiting death sentence charges: corrupting youth and believing other gods. Socrates thinks that philosophers should embrace their death. Kept written records on socrates and his teachings/stories records were written with dialogue. Those who claimed to be knowledgable he challeneged by asking controversal questions. Athenians put him to death philosophy and death. Socrates claims on death confuse the others around him. He is very calm about his death sentence. He was taking his punishment and accepted his death. At death we only become soma lose soul philosphy is a practice for dying in training. Pure thought no engagement with the physical world. Good pure rational and reasoning contamination brings forward bodily concepts. Reality and knowledge pure thought of soul enables a pure pursuit of knowledge leads to pure insight. Mind/body able to feel the physical world around us. If there are two di erent parts, mind and body, they must relate in some way.
