REMINISCENCE THEORY AND IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL: SOME MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS IN PLATO’S PHAEDO

Abstract

This paper focuses on a particular discussion Plato describes in
Phaedo. That is the discussion between Socrates and Cebes about the preexistence and immortality of the soul. The paper does not try to clarify or
better understand the discussion. It is only intended to show that the
mental representations underlying the arguments both Socrates and Cebes
give are consistent with the possibilities the theory of mental models
attributes to human reasoning. In this way, the present paper attempts to
support the basic theses of that theory.