... 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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