Week 1: How Socrates Died (post 5)

"The mind, therefore, is entirely occupied in meditating on death, and freeing itself as much as possible from the body. How, then, can such a man be afraid of death? He who grieves at the approach of death can not be a true lover of wisdom, but is a lover of his body" (p.86). Based on this, Socrates felt that our body is just here to be here in a state of living, but our soul will continue to live without our body. He says that a true philosopher doesn't wallow in bodily pleasures, he sees the senses as being ignorant and evil.

Based on this, he believes in the fact of being true to strong wisdom in life, but not a lover of your own body.He sees death as a passage way to new beginnings. I have to disagree on one part of Socrates approach to believing that senses are the source of ignorance and all evil, because I see that all our senses were given to us as a gift and not to be seen as evil or ignorant, but to be seen as something we can explore in life and learn from as we grow and move forward in life's experiences and everyday challenges. Senses help us feel and understand life in new ways, everyone experiences life through different ways, but we all understand/experience life through our own source of sense. Since it's a gift, it therefore can't be taken away from us, we must learn to accept what was given to us.