Topic > Death in Plato's life and the definition of death

The soul continues to live after the death of its physical body. There is much more to living things than just having a physical body. This is made evident through Plato's idea of ​​reincarnation. This idea arises when Socrates introduces the Argument from Opposites. Plato states: “Everything that becomes this way of anything becomes this way and no other – opposites from opposites…” (Phaedo 70e). For example, for an object to become larger, it must have been smaller before, and from this smallness it has become larger. If everything arises from its opposite; then surely the soul is alive after death. This then leads to the thesis that dead things come from living things and, conversely, that living things must come from dead things. Socrates also points out that if this were not the case, the world would soon be dead. The soul is immortal, it never dies. Instead, it simply moves out of the body when the body dies and then rejoins the body