Western values ​​surrounding death in Socratic Dialogues and colonial testaments

Abstract

Although the Athens of the century V b. C. and late colonial Latin America is very distant in the geography and the time, the two spaces recognized the man’s mortality and they believed in the immortality of the soul. Starting from three Socratic Dialogues and of forty-eight Spanish American colonial testaments, it was carried out as an analogy about how the two cultures faced death. Reference was made to the gods, the immortality, the moral conscience, the tradition, the nets of affection, and the mortuary rites.