PHIL 1301 Study Guide - Wiler, Category Mistake, Well-Order
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To see the thing in itself, you have to see the soul by itself. Philosopher: meditates on leaving the phenomenal world for the abstract world (the good, metaphysical questions = training in being dead) No evil in plato"s universe why? everything that exists = good but there are things farther from the good. Opposite of good = matter (things that the world are made out of = closest thing to evil) Socrates = not afraid of death lack of fear is by beliefs acquainted with world of forms death will a good and no evil mortality of form = different body. Suicide: although death is not evil/good, you cannot simply commit the action. Descriptive = yes because he drank the poison but no cause he was asked to drink it. Socrates believes in following the laws of the state. Attunement : the soul is simply an affect or an emergent property of the body
