briefly summarize socrates's argument taht human have immortal soul.?

Answer 1

Briefly? OK. I think it goes something like this:

"We're still too primitive to explain consciousness scientifically, and the thought of having a soul separate from the body is a nice and appealing one, ergo, that makes it true."

Answer 2

1. The historical Socrates didn't write anything, so we don't know what his argument was, if he had one. In fact, if Plato's "Apology of Socrates" expresses things accurately, Socrates said at his trial that he didn't know whether death was the end or whether the soul was immortal (see Apology 29b-c).

2. Plato wrote dialogues in which the character Socrates presents arguments that the soul is immortal. These arguments are probably Plato's own, not those of the historical Socrates. The dialogues in which arguments for immortality are made include: Meno, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Gorgias, Laws, Timaeus. (In the Laws and Timaeus, the character who makes the arguments is not Socrates.)

3. Of all these dialogues, the one that is mostly ABOUT the immortality of the soul is the Phaedo. In that dialogue, Plato's character Socrates makes four different arguments for immortality. None of these arguments is exactly like the arguments in any of the other dialogues.

4. The argument in the Phaedo that probably seems the best argument is that soul is not the sort of thing that can perish. Briefly, it goes like this: Soul is the animating force or principle of living things. Therefore, soul is essentially related to life. Therefore, wherever there is soul, there is life. Therefore soul cannot die.

5. To accept this argument you must accept that there IS such a thing as soul. But that doesn't beg the question. There could have been such a thing as soul, without that thing being immortal. It is the connection with life that is the key.

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Answer 3

We do really have a soul since your body is nothing but flesh and bones...the soul is really where dreams and nightmares come from, and if you dont really believe in consiusness then its a shame because you are not alive thats how it is...:)

Answer 4

We're damned if we do, and damned if we don't????