Why Socrates Wasn't Afraid To Dìe | Plato's "Phaedo"

Plato's Phaedo. Y'already know.

Excuse the strange edits/lag in places...tried a new editing software, and after dozens & dozens of hours I finally got the hang of it, finished this video, only to discover that it watermarks every video...I refused to buy the full version on principle, and wasn’t gonna start over from scratch in iMovie, so I had to get creative.
Also, Pewdiepie just did a video talking about Greek philosophy, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and the concept of virtue, so I wanted to get this out as a resource.

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Phaedo is one of Plato’s best works. To clarify, Socrates never wrote anything that has survived. Like Jesus the Nazarene, all that we know of him comes from his disciple(s), in this case, Plato.
In this last of Plato’s four dialogues, Socrates is visited in his jail cell by his close friends and admirers. They cannot come to terms with losing someone who has so dramatically shaped their understandings and appreciations of philosophy, and life itself.

But Socrates, even on this day of his execution, fears nothing.
How could this be?

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Do you believe in the idea of a soul? Do you believe, as Socrates did, that the soul is more permanent (as being immaterial) than the physical? Is there room to speak of such things as “an afterlife” in our secular society? Do such things require religious dogma to exist, or does the concept of an afterlife abide by the thermodynamic law of the conservation of energy?

Concerning a definition of the soul, an explanation I’ve heard another Unist use is, "the soul is that which a zombie version of yourself would not possess - it may look like you, it had lived your exact life up until it became what it is, and perhaps still possess all your thoughts or memories, but it fundamentally lacks that spirit which not only made you who you are, but also made you a person connected to (or with the poten..