Socrates On Philosophy and Death

[Mudhammam]

What do you mean that concepts are Univserals?  Could you give an example?

I took him to be referring to the classical distinctions, for example, "chair" as a concept which applies to a variety of objects which partake in the properties of "chair-ness," as opposed to this or that chair. It goes back to the reported exchange between Diogenes of Sinope and Plato:

As Plato was conversing about Ideas and using the nouns "tablehood" and "cuphood," [Diogenes] said, "Table and cup I see; but your tablehood and cuphood, Plato, I can nowise see." "That's readily accounted for," said Plato, "for you have the eyes to see the visible table and cup ; but not the understanding by which ideal tablehood and cuphood are discerned."

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text...hapter%3D2

Even granting dualism, which is what his argument contends, it doesn't establish that personal identity is a property of "souls" and which survives bodily decay, and empirical evidence would suggest that it doesn't.