The Socratic Approach to Death (Featuring a Good Helping of Alan Watts)

When faced with a terrible unknown, sometimes the best place to look for guidance is in ancient wisdom. Death is one of these unknowns. Many of us humans living and dead profess faith in an afterlife. Why does death still feel so alien, even with our self-proclaimed beliefs? Socrates discussed death philosophically as he awaited his own by way of execution. Perhaps Socrates can help alleviate some angst about this great mystery. Perhaps not. Alan Watts too may serve helpful to some.

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Learn more about the topics discussed:

Plato's Phaedo, the last hours of Socrates:

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedo.html

Plato's Crito, the attempted jailbreak:

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

Death as philosophical inquiry:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/death/

The painting, The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David:

https://www.metmuseum.org/en/art/collection/search/436105

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