PHI 2380 Chapter 91c-102a: 2015-03-11 - Phaedo.docx
21 Mar 2015
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Either learning is recollection or the soul is a harmony simmias can"t have it both ways. Simmias admits that all souls are equally harmonious and cannot both be a harmony and a disharmony. However, the body is often not in sync with this harmony, and yet the soul yields to it. If the soul really was truly a harmony, such would not be the case. Adding things together (coming together) is how things come to be and taking them apart (separating them) is how they perished. Things come to be the way they are because it is the best way for them to be. Socrates agreed with anaxagoras" conception of the mind, but given he did not attribute the mind as the cause of all things, socrates was disappointed.
