PHIL 2003H Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cebes

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2003H
• Professor: jeremy

Document Summary

Sche(cid:373)atizi(cid:374)g plato"s argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) co(cid:373)i(cid:374)g-to-be from opposites (70c-72d) Goal of the argument: arguing that immortality is real. Providing proof for the notion that the soul departs to hades instead of simply drifting away into nothingness. Also trying to prove that the soul e(cid:454)isted e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e it (cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to (cid:862)life(cid:863). (prexistence) Moti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) fo(cid:396) the a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: to a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) ce(cid:271)es"s a(cid:374)d the so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) a(cid:271)out the soul, does it really continue on, posed at 70b. What does coming to be mean: creation, plant and animals are born/generated, they also believe in any qualitative change. Cool water came to be hot, then it came to be cool: basically a change in state. Forms are eternal: they never comes to be, beauty etc. For all things that have come to be, there is also an opposite: beautiful offset to ugly. Does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) the (cid:271)eaut(cid:455) but things that make it beautiful: just to unjust, larger to smaller.