Phaedo
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Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Imbibe the Republic or Phaedo at 19, and you will be one kind of person; study Jane Eyre or Mrs. Dalloway, and you will be another.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine�the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Phaedo was the last consolation of many a victim of conscription or imperial tyranny.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
According to the account given in Plato's "Phaedo," he spent his last hours discussing with the friends who attended him the question of the immortality of the soul.
From History of Education by Seeley, Levi
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