PLATON: DA LI JE DUŠA BESMRTNA?
Plato: Is the soul immortal?

Summary/Abstract: This work examines Plato’s teaching on the immortality of the soul. What constitutes our Self, with which we identify as a person, is found in the soul, not in the body. That is why Plato’s Socrates, when Crito asked him how to bury him, replied that they would first have to catch him in order to bury him, and that what they would bury would be his body only. Plato’s key thought is that dying is not disappearance, but only the separation of the soul from the body. In this view, the life is a preparation for parting. If man is destined for something after death, and that something is good for those who were good, and bad for those who were bad, as Plato believed, then it’s not the same what kind of life is lived, and the purpose of life is to deserve the greatest possible reward, which is that the soul will never return to the body, but will gain eternal bliss in existence for itself.

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