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This supplement to Chapter 7 presents quotations from three venerable arguments for complete mortality. These arguments are found in the works of Plato, Aristotle and al-Farabi. In Phaedo Plato has Simmias put the question to Socrates, whether soul and body might be likened to harmony and the lyre. For I suspect, Socrates, that the notion of the soul which we are all of us inclined to entertain, would also be yours, and that you too would conceive the body to be strung up, and held together, by the elements of hot and cold, wet and dry, and the like, and that the soul is the harmony or due proportionate admixture of them. This argument against immortality troubles Socrates and his friends more than any other.