Socrates And Descartes On Dual
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Dualism means the complete separation of the mental world and the physical world. In philosophy, it is the theory that the universe is explicable only as a whole composed of two distinct and mutually exclusive factors: the mind and the body. Socrates and Plato are called dualists because they ....
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.... it… but when it is most by itself, taking leave of the body… in its search for reality" (Plato 102).
In the pursuit of knowledge, the only way to discover reality is to separate the body from the soul. This freedom from the body is called death. This does not mean that one should live in a state close to death, but one should not fear death.
Socrates explains that " our souls… existed apart from the body before they took on a human form" (Plato 115).
Since our souls wer ....
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