... 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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