Plato's Theory of Immortality

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Published 2012-09-09
Chapter Sixteen from Book One, Part Two of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).

All Comments (21)
  • "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also"...Our 5 senses is of the flesh, Our heart is where the Lord teaches us. Less than a split second He can teach us within our heart something that's worth a 1,000 words...."For man cant live alone on bread and water but every word that cometh from the Lord"...Pace
  • @Mikesapien
    Scathing, but so true. Like all things Russell, this chapter is equal parts wine and vinegar.
  • @suprera1525
    resembles the words in bhagawat gita and vedas...hmmm... perhaps the greek philosophers were highly impressed by Egyptian and Vedic mysteries … or perhaps they all are trying to tell us the same thing...be a seeker
  • @chinneths1
    the foolishness of the body is as much its lusts and hunger as it is its thought...
  • @jeanbordes8241
    Pas de référence à Ménon et Gorgias,mais tout ce qui est dit est excellent!Merci mille fois.
  • @jmilber
    Cool-- I found a part of YouTube that isn't ridden with racism. I think I'll stay here.
  • @DudeRevolution
    I liked these philosophies, and didn't fully connect with Bertrands rebuttals.. but his conclusion was so witty, 'he needs a long residence in a scientific purgatory.' haha!
  • TRUE PHILOSOPHY IS ALL INCLUSIVE WITH A YEA RATHER THAN A NO TO ANYTHING, INCLUDING SPIRIT, MIND, AND BODY, IN THAT ORDER, A FULLY SUPREME BEING WHERE THE MIND IS A REFLECTION OF SPIRIT, BODY OF MIND, AND ACTIONS OF BODY.  BODY IS TO BE CARED FOR IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE SOUL FIRST,  NOT EXCLUDED FOR THE BODY IS THE CHARIOT OR RAIMENT OF THE SOUL AND THE MIND IS NAVIGATOR OF ITS SHIP CALLED LOVE & TRUTH TO THE SPIRITUAL VIRTUE THAT IS PROPELLED BY TRUE INTENTION TO OUR NIRVANA WE ALL SEEK NOW.
  • @OnCharmLee
    [Genuine-soul and Miscellaneous-soul. What is your Soul Quotient?] I divide the soul into miscellaneous-soul and genuine-soul. Miscellaneous-soul is a soul associated with everyday life for the flesh and physical world only with the five senses, and genuine-soul is a soul with truth-realization via pure thinking and spiritual activity. I have developed a measurement table that measures individual’s mental level (SQ, Soul Quotient) according to the degree to which he has realized real-truth. There are 150 steps in the table, ranging from -500 to +1000 depending on how much you have developed your soul based on your intelligence. Those who are trapped in the physical world and live mainly in the flesh belong to the scope of –500 ~ +500, and those who do the real-truth and live mentally belong to +500 ~ +1000. Another separate table gives the examples of the well-known persons’ SQs in human history. Are not you curious about how much your SQ is? OnCharm Lee (Author of the book “Humans, God, and Truth – Human Life is the Awakening Process”)
  • @peterrooke5336
    So plato's soul is the thing that makes humans act in other words the brain ?
  • @level4286
    I have a deep feeling, that we're living in the times of the final encounter between the clashing ideas of Plato and Aristotle - the end of one of the two's time. Ideas VS Fanatismn, Idealism VS Materialism, Equality VS Greed, Heaven/Soul VS Earth/Body, Communitarian VS Individualistic.