This is the preview for the partially examined life episode 265, part two on Plato's dialogue

Fado.

You're going to have right now here toward the beginning of that discussion, us delving

into detail on Socrates' proofs for immortality of the soul, and in the course of this, his

theory of forms.

Enjoy!

Now we get a bunch of arguments for the souls of immortality, and this is the first one,

but some people sometimes call the cyclical argument, or what I like to call the recycling

argument.

It begins with this, opposites come from opposites, principle, consciousness.

What do we think of that?

It doesn't sound plausible.

So the reason he wants to introduce this is because where do living things come from,

they must have come from death.

They must have come from something that existed before death.

This is how he's going to apply it, but he thinks this is generally applicable.

If you want to understand more readily in connection, not only with mankind, but with

all animals and plants, and in general, for all things subject to coming to be, let's

see whether everything comes to be in this way.

Opposites come to be only from their opposites.

In the case of all things that actually have an opposite, as for example, the beautiful

is opposite, of course, to the ugly, just the unjust, and so in countless other cases.

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