Friday, February 20, 2026

Apology Question 6

Primary Text: 

Apology 

Question: 

Why is death not to be feared?

Answer: 

Death is not to be feared because it is either a peaceful state of unconsciousness or a migration of the soul to another realm; in either case, it is not harmful and may even be good. 

“Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocating for the soul from here to another place” (Apology 40c-d).

Reference:

Plato (1997). Plato: Complete Works. Hackett Publishing. https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781603846707


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