Phaedo Reading

The reading that was assigned to the class brought up the topic of whether a soul is mortal or immortal. This questions has never crossed my mind and probably wouldn't have if it was never brought to my attention. Socrates seemed to have the belief that even after he was dead, he would still be with his friends because his soul would still be around. Although this is a rare assumtion, he still believed that his soul would remain and he would be around the people that believed in what he had to say. There is no way that anyone could disprove this assumption, but there is also no way to actually prove it is the truth. Another thing that interested me about the past 2 classes was the "ARCHE" to all things. It was different philosophers' ideas on how the world came to be. An example would be Pythagoreans and their ARCHE was numbers. They believed that everything in the world was made up of numbers.