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you would be spending, I daresay, most of the winter doing
it. The questins [questions] asked here are how should Socrates die
and what is death? You know that he, illegible with this story
bifurcated body and soul. In a way that [illegible] world this [illegible] thought for a thousand years. The soul being was permanent, the
body temporary, the soul being was pure, the body contaminated.
(This illegible is not to be confused with a later Descartes bifurcation
of body and mind which I talked about a couple of lectures
[left margin triangle symbol and ?] ago. The rationalist's case is made time and again, "mind is the
eye of the soul." He advocates temperance, justice, courage
and wisdom, but not idly, as a do-gooder. He has definite
ideas about all. For instance, in temperance, he is not
meaning to save your indulgance for Saturday night. No,
he has contempt for bodily pleasures, not for moral reasons
so much as for rational reasons. Because tThat's the only
way you can free the soul from slavery to corporal pollution.
He also avoids pleasure from that viewpoint and and Abhors contemplating on pain and
desire and fear. These [illegible] are all imperfections. The abstract
precedes the concrete and of course the forms are the
reality of which he speaks - "equality, beauty, goodness,
justice, holiness". and Of course the soul is immortal and
deathless. He talks about it appearing at birth from a
prior existence and with his experiment with his slave boy
working out some Pathagarian Phythagorean mathematical geometric identities,
he proved to his satisfaction that the slave boy had known
of these identities, known of the triangle, the circle,

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