Socrates Arguments In Plato's Phaedo

Throughout many of his works, Plato has continually presented the notions that we have souls and that they are or may possibly be immortal. These ideologies are suggested through a series of thoughts, mostly in the form of an argument or analogy. The main arguments presented within “Phaedo” either argue for the immortality of the soul or create a dialogue assuming that the soul is immortal and attempt to prove another aspect of knowledge or life. The main four arguments presented are the cyclical argument, the theory of recollection, the affinity argument, and the argument from the form of life. Plato depends on upon a variety of ontological presuppositions to provide sustenance to the merit of his reasoning. Of course, all of these arguments
In other arguments, Socrates illustrates that the soul must enter the body before or during birth, so ontologically the soul must have existed before birth meaning that it was present before the body was formed. Why Socrates’ argument and analogies to explain this are not very convincing is due to the fact that if we critically examine the cyclical argument itself with regards to the immortality of the soul, there are inconsistencies. For instance, even though some parts of the body go through a cycle one way or another, not all parts of the body do. As not all parts of the body are amongst the pre-existing constituent parts of which we are composed. There is no particular reason for us to suspect that any part of our body is amongst those that travel through this cycle, much less the
Commonplace objects that exist in the empirical world participate in forms to varying degrees, which is Plato’s depiction of metaphysics. These particular objects get people to think about the platonic forms; Plato suggests that we must have already been acquainted with the forms themselves. For instance, he believes that in order for one to see the plate and think of perfect roundness, one must have already experienced perfect roundness. Which raises the questions of how? And when? If perfect roundness does not exist in this world, when could we possibly have experienced it? These questions are answered by Plato, suggesting that the only plausible way we could have experienced forms was in a heavenly realm before the Earth was created as our soul. This argument is brought about by Plato in many of his works, so it is safe to assume this is an ideology he could embrace. The argument could be countered by suggesting that whenever we come across physical objects in an empirical world, we see objects with different attributes and eventually our mind connects the dots to think of a form for the first time. For instance, we could see circles that are more or less perfectly circular than another, and then eventually after seeing circles with varying degrees of circulenes, we would begin to wonder what a perfect circle would look