Much of Plato's beliefs on the soul can be found in his dialogues, "The Republic" and "Phaedo," where he describes that he is a dualist; this means that he believed that the soul and the body were two completely separate entities that worked in conjunction with each other to create what we would deem to be a reasonable human being. Plato aims to be able to prove ... this to everyone through rational logical arguments; most of these are established in "Phaedo." Plato's first argument is the argument from opposites, whereby he states that every single thing in this world has an opposite, whethe...

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... of soul he has. In Phaedo, Plato touches on Socrates' concept of the soul and discovers a unique form of inferiority. Plato agrees and uses four arguments to prove that the body is inferior to the soul. The first is the argument from opposites; when one dies he or she does not stay dead but instead comes back to life. The second argument is the theory of recollection, this theory ... draws that all learning is a matter of recollecting what one already knows. The argument of affinity poses a distinction that the soul is of the first kind and is immortal while the body is of the second ki...

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