Immortality of the soul

In class this week we discussed common fallacies, Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Pythagoreans, and the immortality of the soul. We read about Socrates belief on the human soul when someone dies. He stated about four main reasons why souls are immortal, and proof to back his argument up. The first reason was souls are eternal and unchanging, the soul bring life and is “imperishable.” The next reason is the Theory of Recollection that states that souls existed before birth to be able to retain that knowledge. The third reason is our souls live on when our bodies die and decay. The last reason was the argument from form of life which states of our soul can never die. Socrates stated, “If the doctrine which you are fond of stating, that our learning is only a process of recollection, be true, then I suppose we must have learned at some former time what we recollect now.” I found this very interesting because I have never really thought of it that way. If all souls were immortal would all people start to act in an immortal way and be sad or not? I believe Socrates was a great philosopher. His arguments gave many people hope in the world of an afterlife and a reason to not be sad.