mple, and that makes it indestructible. And since the soul is indestructible, is therefore must be immortal.Socrates’ friends then try to disprove him a second time. Cebes, again, rejects Socrates’ idea, and says that the soul and body are like a lyre and harmony. Cebes says that without the lyre, harmony can’t exist. He then states that the harmony is like that of the soul and the lyre shares a likeness with the body. Harmony fits into his simple category, and the lyre in the composite. The lyre must be made and perfectly in tune before harmony can exist. Which implies that the soul does not exist until the body already does. And if the lyre is destroyed, then so is harmony, which likewise means that is the body is destroyed then the soul no longer exists. Which means that the soul is not immortal. However, Socrates has a reply to his disbelief. Socrates then asks of his friends, if they believe in the “Doctrine of Recollections.” This doctrine is one that was long before proved, and all of them strongly believe in this doctrine. Socrates then states that in that doctrine it is said that the soul does exist before the body. Therefore, Socrates’ friends are forced to abandon their lyre and harmony theory. It now appears that Socrates has successfully proven the immortality of the soul. His friends are satisfied with his belief, and although, weep at his leaving of the earth, have learned to be all right with it.Personally, I do not agree with any of the things Socrates has said. He seems to blatantly disregard some obvious conflictions with his belief. First of all, he never proved the existence of the soul to begin with. Most would think that the first step to proving a belief is true about something is to first prove that the something actually exists. Secondly, he doesn’t explain how a newborn son, if given the soul of a recently passed away person, then why is that infant...
