PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Bad Life, Cebes, Externals
19 Nov 2013
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Dream told him that he was to be diligent and make music/ practice and cultivate the arts/ get to work and busy yourself composing music. Socrates thought this dream meant he should get busy and do philosophy because philosophy is the high of the arts. On one hand, we have dreams (matters of faith) mythos (myth) On the other hand, we have the truth, knowledge logos (logic) We go from mere opinion and belief on one hand (mythos), to rational grounds on why that person should have that opinion or ground in the first place making it a justified true belief (logos) The afterlife will be better for the good person, than the wicked person. Socrates tells a chief executor of his trial, he should follow socrates and he should die here beside socrates. It seems that committing suicide is the obvious answer if they want to die, however there is a problem with suicide.
