... us about the things we experience in our world. This knowledge, Plato believed, was gained when the soul resided in the invisible realm, the realm of The Forms and The Good. Plato's theory of The Forms argued that everything in the natural world is representative of the ideal of that form. For example, a table is representative of the ideal form Table. The form is the perfect ideal on which ... the physical table is modeled. These forms do not exist in the natural world, as they ... in order to have knowledge of the forms. Finally, Plato showed that the soul does not permanently reside ...

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... what we are talking about" when we speak of immortality or less grandiosely of survival after death. We assume sense has been given to talk of the soul as something correlative with the body, as Plato does when the discussion starts and death is characterized as the beginning of the separate existence of the soul and of the separate existence of the body. Although Socrates has no proof ... say, our mental activity aimed at understanding does actually hang together after the death of the body. The main arguments concerning the immortality of the soul come from the Phaedo. Socrates believ...

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... is told by his friend, Phaedo, who later told Echecrates [and later Plato ]. In the dialogue, Socrates talks about the after life, and how it exists. In order to show that the after life exists, he argues about the immortality of the soul. He states that death is the separation of the soul from the body. He argues his theory ofr immortality with three arguments ... itself that people come to know what equal things are. People must "possess knowledge of the Equal before that time when [they] first saw the equal objects" (75a). There must be some previous knowledge of absolute forms befor...

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