In Phaedo, Socrates talks with his friends about pleasure, pain and fear, but he also talks about the soul of someone who finds joy and reason in objects that only bring him joy. Socrates speaks of the difference between the love of objects and the love of knowledge: “Why, because every pleasure and every pain is a kind of nail which nails and rivets man to the body, which absorbs him and makes one believe that what bodily matters are also true; and because she agrees with the body and has the same pleasures, she is obliged to have the same habits and the same manners, and it is unlikely that she will ever be pure when she leaves for the world below, but it is always saturated with the body; so that it soon sinks into another body and germinates and grows there, and therefore has no share in the communion of the divine, the pure and the simple. » (p. 82). I believe Socrates is saying here that a life lived with habits and the same affairs is a life that binds you to your mortal body. For a philosopher, it's different. “For this is not how the soul of a philosopher reasons; she will not ask philosophy to free her so that, once freed, she can give herself up again to the slavery of pleasures and pains, doing a work which will only be undone, weaving instead of unweaving the web of his Penelope. (p. 83)/ Here I believe Socrates is saying that the soul of a philosopher does not attach itself to the mortal body because a philosopher finds reason in the two nails of pain and