soul immortal or not?

In class on Monday, we talked about how “All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates states that all souls are immortal, and we should welcome death. Plato provided four arguments to support his idea on the immortality of the soul. As I read them I started questioning the validity of his arguments. Socrates states that a human’s soul carries priori knowledge, which is given to us when it enters our bodies at birth. I believe this is a false statement. People do not have this unknown knowledge when they are born. Socrates also talks about the nature of opposites. Socrates is trying to convince his readers that “living” and “dying” have the same relationship as “larger” and “smaller.” This is a dilemma because one cannot compare reversible things like “larger” and “smaller” with irreversible things such as “living” and “dying.”