philosophy creative project

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Names: Sanad Alelyani, Khalid Almaki, Yazeed Alsadhan, Musaad Alangari

Philosophy 101: from 1:10 to 2:00

International Students

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Our project is the conversation between Simmias, Cebes and Socrates about the misfortunes they face in life and the better life after death. They discuss the relationship between the soul and the physical body and the control they have over each other.

An explanation of how the project relates to the selected reading.

The conversation presents various arguments of how human beings can live without minding their misfortunes and how to solve them but instead to visualize the future vision of good life without misfortunes after death.

The project itself.

In Phaedo 84C- 88B, Socrates went silent after completing his argument while Simmias and Cebes continued talking together in low voices. When Socrates learns about this, he encourages them to talk louder then, Simmias reminds Socrates that they have some problems with his argument, but they are afraid of interrupting him to his present misfortune. Socrates consequently feels that Simmias' objections are amusing, and feels that Simmias must be thinking that Socrates has less vision of the future than a swan.

According to Socrates, swans often sing loudly and sweetly when they are about to die because, back in their mind they are sure that better fortune that looms for them after death, and therefore, he is self-assured that he will have the good life and fair well after death hence ignores his current misfortunes and urges Simmias and Cebes to tender their doubts.

The conversion proceeds and Simmias proposes an analogy about the relationship that exist between the soul and the physical body and the relationship that exist between the attunement of the strings in a musical gadget and the gadget itself. Socrates admits the argument and ask Cebes to present his argument too. At this instant, they are discussing how soul of human being survives death because it existed before the birth of physical body. Socrates argues that the body undergoes constant changes but the soul remakes it and if the soul dies, the body can no longer be remade and therefore rots.

Simmias' and Cebes' objections to Socrates arguments about the relationship between the physical body and the soul are viewed extremely different and he takes much of the dialogue in responding to the objection. He is very convivial and encourages the protestations. He does not impose his opinion on Simmia and Cebes but ratjer gives them time to think about his arguments (Brian, 2011).

The theory of recollection, states that there is difference made between the sub-conscious awareness of forms that is immediately forgotten at birth, and the induced awareness of forms developed thereafter. This can be used to give an account or explanation of the human knowledge. Therefore, it is through proper dialect of questions, counter arguments and objection that proper understanding of human knowledge can be understood (Brian, 2011).

The Phaedo’s gives two significant philosophical theories such as the theory of forms and the immortality of souls and the intersection of the two constitute a central importance, and particularly, the argument on whether there are Forms of Soul in which human souls take part. This argument significant because souls have much emphasized attention in Plato’s writing. According to my opinion, I would support for the interpretation that there are essential forms contained in the Phaedo, because the examples put forward and the interpretation seems to support the fact. (Brian, 2011)

Reference

Brian P. (2011). "The Form of Soul in the Phaedo", Plato 11 (2011), [Enligne], misaligned: March 2012, Retrieved from http://www.gramata.univ-paris1.fr/Plato/article101.html

Peterson, S. (2011). Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.