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- Title
Reconsidering the Essential Nature and Indestructibility of the Soul in the Affinity Argument of the Phaedo.
- Authors
Stephanides, Stephanos
- Abstract
This paper offers a fresh examination of a salient distinction located at the beginning of the Affinity Argument between the composite (τὸ σύνθετον) and the incomposite (τὸ ἀσύνθετον). I offer reasons for why Plato may have intended for us to assume that the soul is an incomposite unity in its essential nature. I then substantiate this claim by reviving an ancient interpretation to the Affinity Argument according to which the soul is of the same metaphysical kind as the Forms. I thus suggest that the argument may be seen as supporting the basic indestructibility cum immortality of all souls.
- Subjects
PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; IMMORTALITY of the soul; ARGUMENT; SOUL
- Publication
Rhizomata, 2023, Vol 11, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
2196-5110
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/rhiz-2023-0004