Catherine McClure

 Plato's dialog, "Phaedo," presents Socrates ideas about death, and the fact that instead of shying away and being fearful of the inevitable death, he welcomes it. Socrates sees death as the complete separation of the body and soul, and once this occurs you can obtain knowledge like you never knew you could because prior to this separation your body got in the way. Once you are no longer one with your body, you don't have any basic needs that your body is constantly reminding you to fulfill, and instead, according to Socrates, you can access a level of wisdom that was impossible prior to this. Socrates views the body as what blocks us from knowledge, from truth, and from wisdom.  To me, death is something that is fear by many because there is no exact answer to what happens to us when we die; there are theories on theories on theories about this, but there is nothing that straightforward tells us this is what happens. Socrates has a thought that I have always somewhat

 Darby discusses in his article "Reparations and Racial Inequality" the issue of reparations for African Americans and what these reparations should be. He brings up that many people asked for monetary reparations be made; I find this demand to be crazy, and Darby states how monetary and physical reparations may not be enough. I find it really crazy that people would demand monetary reparations because what at all does that change? It is like saying money fixes everything; when it reality, it doesn't.  Darby overall argues that African Americans need to live in a world in which they are equal to be themselves and to have the life of everyone around them. Darby brings up the idea of building statues and museums and what not, but even this still will not fix everything. When it comes to monetary reparations, you obviously reach the question of where does this money come from; it would not be fair to make anyone today make a monetary payment because 150 years ago an extremel