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        <title><![CDATA[The Argument From Opposites in the Phaedo was one of Socrates' ways of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Argument From Opposites in the Phaedo was one of Socrates' ways of proving the immortality of the soul.  In this argument, he says that everything comes to be by having first been its opposite.  He gives the example that a small thing must have been big and has since decreased and a big thing must have been small and then increased.
It is not clear to me whether you want support for the idea of opposites or for using that argument to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How could someone support the 'argument of opposites' in the Phaedo?
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        <title><![CDATA[In the Phaedo, Plato through the mouth of Socrates argues for the idea...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the Phaedo, Plato through the mouth of Socrates argues for the idea that human beings possess an immortal and sentient soul. This was by no means universally believed in ancient Greece, and so he has difficulty carrying his point. He argues for the soul on four main grounds: cyclical, recollection, affinity, and true nature (the Form of soul).  The cyclical argument declares that there must be something pre-existing that animates us:...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What conclusion can be made about the spiritual nature of the human...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What conclusion can be made about the spiritual nature of the human being or the soul in Plato's &quot;Phaedo&quot;?]]></description>
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