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Plato

Phaedo

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

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Essay Topics

1.

Socrates gives four reasons why the soul must be immortal. Pick one of these reasons, describe it, and suggest a way to argue against it.

2.

Socrates can pay a small bribe and escape his confinement, emigrate to another city, and resume his life, but instead he chooses to accept his death sentence. Briefly describe three reasons why he does so.

3.

Why are the objects that make up the world mortal while the essences of those objects are immortal? Explain using Socrates’s concept of things and forms.