https://platodigested.home.blog/ancient-philosophers-cards/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/trumps-sample.jpgtrumps sample2019-01-09T15:53:54+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/who-is-plato/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/socrates-painting-e1543148314813.jpgsocrates-paintingSchool of athens2019-01-03T17:36:39+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/2019/01/01/phaedo-3-3-the-journey-to-the-other-side/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/O24.3Ganymedes.jpgO24.3GanymedesSocrates bids Crito to sacrifice a cock to Aesclipus. In ancient Greence, this is what sick people did in hope of a cure; did Socrates see life as a kind of 'sickness' from which we must be cured?https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/maxresdefault.jpgmaxresdefaultSocrates calmly kills himself, showing an impressively (or chillingly?) measured attitude to his own demise.https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Picture_Natural_History_-_No_365_-_The_Hemlock.pngPicture_Natural_History_-_No_365_-_The_HemlockSocrates opts to drink Hemlock to fulfil his death sentence. It produces violent and disturbing symptoms when eaten; Socrates' death was most likely sanitised by Plato (see thoughts at end of post).https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/4869440_orig.jpg4869440_origTartarus, the equivalent of 'hell' for the Greeks, and a place that was literally underground.https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bartolomeu_Velho_1568.jpgBartolomeu_Velho_1568The 'geocentric' model of the cosmos, with earth at the centre, was a common (yet understandable) mistake made from antiquity up to Copernicus in the 1500s.https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1280px-David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg1280px-David_-_The_Death_of_SocratesJacques-Louis David's famous 'The Death of Socrates' (1787), depicting Socrates attitude to his suicide, and the pain suffered by his friends. Socrates points up, to the forms, just as Plato does in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'2019-01-02T23:07:27+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/2018/12/02/crito-the-social-contract-and-the-nature-of-justice/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/5249a8fc5a0871655974f3352810acbb.png5249a8fc5a0871655974f3352810acbbSocrates improves by listening to his coachhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1206578721112928526johnny_automatic_vacant_prison_cell-svg-med.png1206578721112928526johnny_automatic_vacant_prison_cell.svg.medhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/kisspng-prison-cell-open-prison-prison-escape-clip-art-jail-cell-5b44142c5c7490-8429400915311882683787.jpgkisspng-prison-cell-open-prison-prison-escape-clip-art-jail-cell-5b44142c5c7490.8429400915311882683787https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/policeman-11530963199xiuwdebvru.pngpoliceman-11530963199xiuwdebvruhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9780140442014_p0_v2_s1200x630.jpg9780140442014_p0_v2_s1200x630Philosophers Rousseau and (earlier) Hobbes are most famous for the 'social contract' idea, but Plato got there first, 1000 years earlier.https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/404-e1543659790700.jpgSocrates prisonAn ancient prison cell in Athens in where (possibly) Socrates was held. Whilst Plato's dialogue-based accounts of the events of Socrates' death are almost certainly fictionalised, there is no doubt that in general, it all happened.2019-01-01T22:24:07+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/moreaboutplato/2019-01-01T22:21:35+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/2018/12/24/phaedo-part-2-the-two-worlds-of-existence-and-reincarnation/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Anaxagoras_8.jpgAnaxagoras_8Anaxagoras was one of the greatest pre-Socratic philosophers, but didn't impress Socrates.https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/a2c6db95bc03ab7eaff88c0ef50284cc.jpga2c6db95bc03ab7eaff88c0ef50284ccDoes a person wear out coats like the soul wears out bodies, and eventually become worn out itself?https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/stevie-ray-vaughan-2.pngstevie-ray-vaughan-2Is the soul more like the tone produced by the 'body' of a guitar than a separate, immortal substance?https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Donkey-3-icon.pngDonkey-3-iconGreedy people, according to Socates, coud get reincarnated as donkeys. How serious is he being?https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/swan_PNG35.pngSwanThe Phaedo: is it Socrates' swansong?2018-12-26T18:58:34+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/2018/12/12/phaedo-part-1-on-a-life-after-death/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1de5b457361337760b26d99b43c69336.jpg1de5b457361337760b26d99b43c693362018-12-26T18:43:49+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/2018/11/29/the-apology-part-2-socrates-verdict/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/b62e66d658329f1141b7dd9ae599c240fc15301660d3b1bb2ba21ea76dc8db6c.jpgb62e66d658329f1141b7dd9ae599c240fc15301660d3b1bb2ba21ea76dc8db6chttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/art-in-detail-the-greek-underworld-part-1-deities-25-638-e1543356236791.jpgart-in-detail-the-greek-underworld-part-1-deities-25-638What kind of afterlife will Socrates go to? And will he meet others there to question and annoy?2018-12-26T18:43:36+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/2018/11/26/the-apology-part-1-the-battle-cry-for-philosophy/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/botton.pngbottonhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/p01128tw.jpgp01128tw2018-12-26T18:43:06+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/works-of-plato/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/51mzsp6upll-_sy264_bo1204203200_ql40_.jpg51MzSp6UPlL._SY264_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/plato_complete_works_173x260_2-e1543155402213.pngplato_complete_works_173x260_22018-12-12T16:34:02+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/plato-regurgitated/2018-12-12T16:24:22+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/2018/11/23/euthyphro/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ethyrpro-dilemma-e1543178086547.pngDilemmaThe famous 'Euthyphro dilemma', which poses a problem for anybody who believes in a good god(s)https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b8d25fbc10970c-320wi.jpgDilemmaThe famous 'Euthyphro dilemma' found in this dialogue, for anybody who believes in a good godhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1359585362-greek-god-zeus-psd47915.png1359585362-greek-god-zeus-psd47915https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/socrates.pngsocrateshttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/euthyphrocartoon.jpegeuthyphrocartoonhttps://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/scsahvy.jpgScsahvY2018-11-27T12:02:41+00:00monthlyhttps://platodigested.home.blog/what-is-plato-digested/2018-11-25T16:00:39+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blog/contact/https://platodigested.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/person-smartphone-office-table.jpegPlaceholder Image2018-11-25T14:56:06+00:00weekly0.6https://platodigested.home.blogdaily1.02019-01-09T15:53:54+00:00