Crito asks Socrates "In what way shall we bury you Socrates?"
Socrates answers "In any way you like but first you must catch me, the real me. Be of good cheer , my dear Crito and say that you are burying my body only and do that whatever is usual and what you think best."
Socrates means to say that the SPIRIT his thoughts represent are so omnipresent and invincible that by merely destroying the carrier the SPIRIT cannot be buried. It will live forever in other bodies and minds. We need to work to get a SPIRIT to burn without us and then when we get that SPIRIT to burn we make ourself invincible.
Socrates means to say that the SPIRIT his thoughts represent are so omnipresent and invincible that by merely destroying the carrier the SPIRIT cannot be buried. It will live forever in other bodies and minds. We need to work to get a SPIRIT to burn without us and then when we get that SPIRIT to burn we make ourself invincible.
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