/lit/ - Literature

Why do people still believe in physicalism when Socrates refuted it in the phaedo?

>>18420684
Phaedo by Plato.

>>18217822
The last part of Phaedo

Does the Greater and the Lesser and the Larger and the Smaller and the Soul exist before and after death, anon, or is it just a construct of language, a concept taught and not recollected, by experience while living rather than before? Did the Soul exist before life and will it exist after?

Ever since I first read it, Socrates's Apology has seemed to me more of a historical document than a philosophical treaty. Am I missing some important cues, or is this text just good for contextualization of what kind of person Socrates was and what motivated Plato into developing his own brand of philosophy?

>Read the Bible
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Bhagavad-Gita
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Upanishads
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Tao te Ching
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read Jakob Bohme
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read Plato
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Dhammapada
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Imitation of Christ
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read Goethe
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read St Augustine
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read Wagner
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

>Read the Divine Comedy
>The world must be renounced and the flesh mortified

What did they mean by this, /lit/?