In the city of Phlius, in the Peloponnese, Echecrates meets Phaedo, one of the men present during Socrates' last hours. Echecrates pushes Phaedo to tell what happened. Numerous friends of Socrates were gathered in his cell, including his old friend Crito and two Pythagorean philosophers, Simmias and Cebes. The tale begins with Socrates proposing that, although suicide is wrong, a true philosopher should look forward to death. The soul, Socrates asserts, is immortal and the philosopher spends his life training it to detach itself from the needs of the body. In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates provides four arguments for this statement: opposites, memory, the affinity between the forms and the soul, and the argument that essentially life can never die. Plato uses opposites to support his idea uses the First argument in favor of the immortality of the soul. Socrates responds with two general statements, lists the statements, then applies these assumptions to life, death, and the soul. Socrates' first general statement is that change occurs between opposites. Hard becomes soft and objects that are soft harden or become hard. Cold becomes hot and hot becomes cold. The sick become healthy and the healthy become sick. All things arise from their opposite; for example, a tall man becomes tall only because he was short before. Likewise, death is the opposite of life, and therefore living things arise from dead things and vice versa. This implies that there is a cycle of life and death. Therefore, when we die, we do not remain dead, but come back to life after a certain period of time. The second general statement is that if both opposites continue to exist. In the world, change must happen in both directions. Therefore, if... in the center of the card... the soul participates in the Form of Life. Like fire, the soul will have to resist its opposite, the Form of Death, to exist. Furthermore, for a soul to exist, it has the ontological necessity of being immortal and immortal just as the number 3 to be considered odd has the ontological necessity of being odd. Therefore, while the soul is contained within the body and the body is subject to death, the soul eschews death to exist from one life to the next. In conclusion, In Phaedo, Plato uses Socrates to express his own philosophical opinions. Socrates relies on four arguments to convince his friends of the immortality of the soul. Furthermore, Plato demonstrates how Socrates uses human reason. Socrates uses Plato's theory of forms as fundamental in Socrates' final attempt to demonstrate the immortality of the soul. Using four arguments to demonstrate the immorality of the soul.