But the truth is that Plato in his argument for the immortality of the soul has collected many elements of proof or persuasion, ethical and mythological as well as dialectical, which are not easily to be reconciled with one another and he is as much in earnest about his doctrine of retribution, which is repeated in all his more ethical writings, as about his theory of knowledge. The hatred of arguments is equally mistaken, whether we are going to live or die. Oceanus is the river which encircles the earth Acheron takes an opposite direction, and after flowing under the earth and in the desert places at last reaches the Acherusian lake, and this is the river at which the dead await their return to earth. And if prior to them, then prior also to the perceptions of the senses which recall them, and therefore either given before birth or at birth.
THE CRITO seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of Heaven, but simply tranwlated the good citizen, who having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the State. Again, the soul commands, the body serves: Euthyphro explains that he means by pious acts, acts of service or ministration. The fact that he had been neutral in jiwett death struggle of Athens was not likely to conciliate popular good-will.
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