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Philosophy Summary Paper

The continued existence of the soul after death a critical field that Plato has majored in in his manuscript, 'Phaedo.' Plato's idea is that soul and body can easily be separated since they each play different functions in a human being's life. The main work of the body is to portray a metaphysical aspect of life. For example, the existence of people is real because they can be seen, touched, and can even communicate with each other. On the other hand, the presence of the soul cannot be seen, creating an abstract nature that boosts the essence of human beings' lives.

The prove the existence of the soul even after death, Plato explores how 'truth' comes to be being in people's lives. Unfortunately, the phenomenon noted by Plato, through the use of Socrates' character, is that truth cannot exist in the presence of a human body. A question was raised as to "then when does the soul attain truth?" (p. 3, line 11). In his reply, Socrates indicated that anything that associate with the body is deceived and cannot bear any reflection of the truth. However, for people to portray the truth, there must occur separation between soul and the body, "and this separation and release of the soul from the body is termed death?" (p. 6, line 8).

To further his argument, Plato noted that it is pretty common to notice the change of behavior among people when they are about to die, the main reason being they want to appease their next lives. A life that only the soul exists after death. Plato moreover prescribes death to all philosophers who want to remain truthful to their work and the impacts they have on society.

The key reason is that philosophers cannot attain knowledge and truth and still be stuck in the bodily selves. Socrates notices that "but after death; for if while in company with the body, the soul cannot have pure knowledge, one of two things follows: either knowledge is not to be 15 attained at all, or, if at all, after death (p. 5, line 13-14). Knowledge is key for all philosophers; that is why Plato believes they need to be truthful and perceive the world from the perspective of wisdom.

Mary Daly further supports the above postulation in her deliberation of bettering human beings beyond what God envisioned. She indicated that "one of the false deities to...