Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Plato's Argument for the Mortality of the Soul
The soul is a self moving thing, which means it has to be a principle of movement for the universe. And that's where you get the immortality from. But in this dialogue only as part of this picture of the chariot that is whizzing around the heavens and occasionally will be dragged down to earth then have an earthly life. It gives a very samsara give a Vedic take on reincarnation.
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