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This 5 page paper analyzes 65A in Plato's Phaedo, a sentence that reveals the contemplation of life after death and the separation of the soul from the body. The passage is evaluated in the context of what is said previously and afterwards. No additional sources cited.
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the contemplation of life after death and the separation of the soul from the body. The passage is evaluated in the context of what is said previously and afterwards.
No additional sources cited. SA128Pha.rtf In Phaedo, Plato made the following comment: "In matters of this sort philosophers, above
all other men, may be observed in every sort of way to dissever the soul from the body" (Plato 65A). From that, some might suppose that Platos claim is that
the body is a hindrance. In other words, when philosophers die they certainly want to separate their minds or souls from their bodies. They hope, as thinking men, that they
will not just die, but rather that there is a place for their thinking self after physical death. Perhaps philosophers care more
about where their bodies end up. They have spent a life of contemplation and the thought that they have immersed themselves in is rather important, at least to them. To
ordinary folk, it is the body that becomes most pertinent, but to philosophers, priests, monks and anyone who has devoted their lives to spirituality, the soul becomes pertinent. Religious folk
have groomed themselves for heaven. They have made sure to live clean lives so their souls will be saved. Agnostics and atheists expect that perhaps they will disintegrate and simply
cease to exist, but the philosopher has trouble conceiving this. While the sentence contemplated is rather bland, it has greater meaning in
the context in the total work. Several lines before 65A comes up in the dialogue there are these questions posed: "And will he think much of the other ways of
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