Plato piqued the interest of many readers with the work of a great philosopher named Socrates. Thanks to Plato, Socrates lived generations after his time. One topic of Socrates that many will continue to discuss is the idea of ​​an “immortal soul.” Although there are various works and dialogues on this subject, it is best explained in The Phaedo. It is fair to say that the mind may wonder when one dies, what exactly happens to the beloved soul, the life-giver, often considered the very essence of life, lives does it go beyond the body, or does it die with it? Does the soul have knowledge of the past if it really continues to live? In Plato's Phaedo, Plato recounts the last days of Socrates before his death. Socrates was imprisoned and sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens and failing to respect the rights of the Athenian religion. The death of Socrates brings him, along with his fellow philosophers Cebes, Simmions, Phaedo and Plato, into a perplexed dialogue about this notion of the afterlife and what we should hope for after death. Death is defined as the separation of body and soul. In The Phaedo, death has two notions: the common one which is the basic idea according to which the soul dies and the physical idea, according to which the soul separates from the body after death. “The soul most resembles what is divine, immortal, intelligible, uniform, indissoluble, and always coherent and invariable, while the body most resembles what is human, mortal, multiform, unintelligible, dissolved and never coherent. (Phaedo) According to Socrates, knowledge is not something that one comes to understand, but is actually imprinted on the soul. For Socrates, knowledge was an eternal immutable truth, something that could not...... middle of paper...... it is safe to say that the mind is capable of wondering what is something of beauty, perfection or a perfect circle. seems to be. The mind is also capable of thinking about these ideas even if the soul has never encountered them. If these arguments prove anything, it proves that the Memory Theory and the Cyclic Argument both attest that the soul existed before, but the arguments do not prove that the soul will continue to exist after this life. Cahn, M Steven. Classics of Western Philosophy. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc 20062. Morgan, K, 2000, Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.3. Partenie, Catalin, "Plato's Myths", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2009 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . (April 112010)