"Lec 8 - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)" Death (PHIL 176) The lecture focuses exclusively on one argument for the immortality of the soul from Plato's Phaedo, namely, "the argument from simplicity." Plato suggests that in order for something to be destroyed, it must have parts, that is, it must be possible to "take it apart." Arguing that the soul is simple, that it does not have parts, Plato believes that it would logically follow that the soul is indestructible. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Frailties in "Recycling" and "Recollecting" Arguments 09:21 - Chapter 2. The Argument from Simplicity 19:01 - Chapter 3. Does Indestructibility and Invisibility of the Soul Necessarily Mean Immortality? Objections from Cebes and Simmias 30:36 - Chapter 4. Harmony as a Counter Analogy 42:36 - Chapter 5. Radio Waves - To Detect Rather Than to Sense the Soul Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
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Lec 2 - The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
Lec 3 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
Lec 4 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
Lec 5 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
Lec 6 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
Lec 7 - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
Lec 9 - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
Lec 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
Lec 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
Lec 12 - Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
Lec 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
Lec 14 - What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
Lec 15 - The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
Lec 16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
Lec 17 - The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
Lec 18 - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
Lec 19 - Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
Lec 20 - The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
Lec 21 - Other bad aspects of death, Part II
Lec 23 - How to live given the certainty of death
Lec 24 - Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
Lec 25 - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
Lec 26 - Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion