Episode 73, Plato’s Phaedo: The Death of Socrates (Part IV - The Death of Socrates, Further Analysis and Discussion)

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Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane

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🗓️ 2 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Let me tell you about the day Socrates drank the poison. You must be aware of his trial and apology? The Athenians have not stopped talking about it since Meletus and the others condemned him. Do not worry, he did not die in fear and nor is he truly gone. He argued his case much like he always had. He died the philosopher’s death, having practiced for it his entire life.

What does this mean? Socrates spoke persuasively about matters concerning the immortality of the soul. He said the life of a true philosopher helps the prisoner, chained hand and foot in their body, to escape from the dark cave of ignorance and into the light of wisdom. This, in turn, provides the soul with the perfect means to release itself from the body after death.

When the hour arrived, and Socrates finally took the hemlock, he did not flinch. Those of us who bore witness could not help but shed a tear – we were not as brave as the wise man who lay before us. What? You would like to hear more? Are you not convinced of the immortality that Socrates proposed? Come, take a seat, I will tell you the full story…

Contents

Part I. The Soul and Body

Part II. Arguments for the Soul’s Immortality

Part III. In Defence of Immortality

Part IV. The Death of Socrates, Further Analysis and Discussion

Transcript

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0:00.0	Pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan, pan,
0:07.0	Scicast!
0:08.0	Part 4. The death of Socrates, further analyses and discussion.
0:28.5	So here we are with our final instalment of our Socrates series.
0:32.1	In the first little reading, we're going to be unpacking Socrates's afterlife myth,
0:36.7	and then afterwards we're going to be doing Socrates's's afterlife myth, and then afterwards we're going to be
0:38.2	doing Socrates's death, his drinking of the hemlock itself. In previous installments, we've
0:43.5	been looking at the immortality of the soul. This is no longer the concern of the Fido. The Fido now is
0:49.2	kind of telling a story about what's going to happen upon the death, and then the death actually
0:52.9	taking place. We're then going to be looking at death and then the death actually taking place.
0:58.3	We're then going to be looking at some further analysis and discussion, giving our thoughts on death, all things cheery to light a new mood in the spring to come. And then, yeah, we'll be
1:04.0	analysing the arguments more generally and giving our thoughts on a whole Socrates series of
1:07.9	heaps of things to be looking forward to, lots of things to nourish
1:11.6	the soul of all things that are good. So without further ado, here comes a penultimate reading
1:16.7	of Plato's Vido.
1:22.8	Despite Socrates's regular distraction in his love of things horse-related, he did a fine job of responding to the queries of Siebes and Simeus.
1:36.3	As would be expected, Eccrities, all of us in his presence were fully convinced.
1:40.3	So, how did the proceedings continue?
1:43.3	There is a further point, gentlemen, which deserves your attention. convinced. So, how did the proceedings continue?
1:48.5	There is a further point, gentlemen, which deserves your attention.
1:55.4	Is it horse-related? No. If the soul is immortal, it demands our care, not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time.
1:58.0	Forgive me for being short, but what on earth do you mean, Socrates?
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