Phaedo Response
Throughout Plato's Phaedo , Socrates, an Ancient Greek Philosopher, details, through the eyes of Plato, his views on the topic of death. In which he believes so strongly that he kills himself in an attempt to prove he was right. The most interesting of these takes, however, is his Cyclical Argument, in which he states that because: 1) All things come from their opposites. For example, if something is now strong, it once was weak. 2) Between these opposite conditions, there are two opposite transformations. So between strong and weak there is an increase in strength and a decrease in strength. 3) If these two transformations did not balance each other out, everything would end up the same. If the increase in strength did not match up with the decrease, everything would just end up weak. 4) Since life and death are opposite conditions and dying and being born and opposite transformations, being born must balance out dying. Ther...