No Need to Fear Death: A Look in "The Trial and Death of Socrates"

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He is not only helping to strengthen the law but he is also strengthening himself by dying. In not disobeying the Athenian law, he is able to have a clear soul by separating it from his body in death. Although a shared opposition to this argument is that fear keeps one from committing evil, Socrates argues that if nothing bad happens to the person, then there is no reason to fear death...
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"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death" (Plato 41). However, only through the soul does one gain necessary knowledge to become a good man and Socrates believes that the human body hinders the soul from such knowledge. This argument is proven more thoroughly in Plato's Apology...
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