Hence, Socrates embraces his sentence because dying at the right time and dying in the right way provides him the possibility of a good death. The trial and death of Socrates by Plato Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893, ed. Fourth, Socrates argues that death is either oblivion for the one who dies or it is the souls relocation to another place. In this paper, I will examine Socrates’ view of death, and I will argue that, according to Socrates, there could be a third perspective on death that will not only make him truly immortal in a certain way, but will also immortalize the practice of Socratic philosophy. According to Socrates, either of these views of death would be acceptable to him the one, because he would receive a wonderful rest with no dreams to disturb him the other, because he would be able to talk philosophy with those who had gone before with impunity. Perhaps, Socrates suggests, death is not a great evil after all, but ‘the greatest of all goods.’ At the end of the dialogue, after the judges have voted on the final verdict and Socrates has received the death penalty, the philosopher considers two common views of death: that death is a long dreamless sleep and that death is a journey to another place - Hades. Athenaeus 11.505c), doubted by many because no extant works or fragments mention him in connection with Socrates and the Athenian Antisthenes, whom Plato’s Phaedo includes among those present at Socrates’s execution. It is to claim to know what one in fact does not know ( Ap. Two men are credited with initiating the genre of Socratic discourses: Alexamenos (Aristotle, fr. In Plato’s Apology (29a-b), Socrates agues that he does not fear death indeed, to fear death is a sign of ignorance.
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