Plato's demonstration of the immortality of the soul rests upon the assumption of the Platonic ideas. Reasoning to prove this 412 The soul always brings life, and is essentially living. It cannot receive death: in other words, it is immortal 413 The proof of immortality includes pre-existence as well as post-existence--animals as well as man--also the metempsychosis or translation of the soul from one body to another 414 After finishing his proof that the soul is immortal, Sokrates enters into a description, what will become of it after the death of the body. He describes a [Greek: Nekui/a] 415 Sokrates expects that his soul is going to the islands of the blest. Reply to Kriton about burying his body 416 Preparations for administering the hemlock. Sympathy of the gaoler. Equanimity of Sokrates _ib._ Sokrates swallows the poison. Conversation with the gaoler 417 Ungovernable sorrow of the friends present. Self-command of Sokrates. Last words to Kriton, and death _ib._ Extreme pathos, and probable trustworthiness of these personal details 419 Contrast between the Platonic Apology and the Phædon _ib._. Abundant dogmatic and poetical invention of the Phædon compared with the profession of ignorance which we read in the Apology 421 Total renunciation and discredit of the body in the Phædon. Different feeling about the body in other Platonic dialogues 422 Plato's argument does not prove the immortality of the soul. Even if it did prove that, yet the mode of pre-existence and the mode of post-existence, of the soul, would be quite undetermined 423 The philosopher will enjoy an existence of pure soul unattached to any body 425 Plato's demonstration of the immortality of the soul did not appear satisfactory to subsequent philosophers. The question remained debated and problematical 426 PLATO. CHAPTER XII ALKIBIADES I. AND II. ALKIBIADES I.--ON THE NATURE OF MAN. [Side-note: Situation supposed in the dialogue. Persons--Sokrates and Alkibiades.]