Phaedo

American  

[fee-doh] / ˈfi doʊ /

noun

1. 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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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

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 Levi Seeley

A few years since we chanced to send a copy of an American edition of Plato's "Phaedo" to a German Professor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various

Plato, in his Phaedo, puts into the mouth of Socrates utterances of great beauty and far-reaching import; yet, notwithstanding their sublimity, they scarcely attain to more than a 'perhaps.'

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander