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Philosophy1Phaedo of Plato makes lots of arguments which are valued and considered. One of thosearguments refers to Socrates opinion of suicide. Socrates and other authors discuss about theact of killing oneself is right or wrong. Socrates believed that it is wrong to kill oneself asGod does not want this to happen[ CITATION Fit14 \l 1033 ]. He will punish people if theydo so. This life is given by God and people should not take it away. When Socrates and hisfriends were thinking about this, they also thought it was a good thing as the soul is thenfreed from the body which is a painful thing anyway. Socrates at the same time also said thatphilosophers should not at all fear death as they are the people who possess more value onknowledge as compared to the desires which are associated with the body. According to him,death was nothing more but the disintegration of the body and soul where soul leaves bodyafter death. Also that a philosopher should not be sad about this fact too as after death theydetach themselves from the bodily concerns like food, drink, emotions etc. Then Plato used Socrates for conveying dualistic understanding of the soul and the body.According to Plato, the soul is separated after death but still lives as a different entity. AfterPlato suggested his idea about soul after death, he did not argue whether the soul exists or notin real. He instead hypnotized the idea about the body dying and the soul lives somewhereelse. There was no backing about such philosophy which he did[ CITATION Aus14 \l 1033 ].The belief of Socrates was more believable than Plato’s as his reason his theory too. Hestated that person who dies still has hope after death. Cebes (Socrates Friend) then stated thatmany people will not accept this theory of the existence of soul in someone else after thedeath. There was ancient Greek theory which believed that everything thing that exists is andup of atoms and can easily be dispersed for building other elements[ CITATION Sha11 \l1033 ]. Plato disallows this statement which can just be speculated instead of focussing on theexplanation as to why he believes soul is immortal and it is a viable theory. Heraclitusclaimed that underlying substances was natural state of universe. Plato used this statement forarguing that life comes from death for supporting the belief in immortality. If there is no dualistic theory, then soul and the body will not separate by death as there is nosoul and hence, there will no chance of the soul being immortal. The entire argument comesdown if this is false[ CITATION Beg \l 1033 ].

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