Phaedo
[fee-doh]
- a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.
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The local arrangement of the vision is less distinct than that of the Phaedrus and Phaedo.
The RepublicPlato
The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life.
The RepublicPlato
The proof is very slight, even slighter than in the Phaedo and Republic.
MenoPlato
In the Phaedo, as in the Meno, the origin of ideas is sought for in a previous state of existence.
MenoPlato
They are not more certain than facts, but they are equally certain (Phaedo).
MenoPlato