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

Here is Plato's account of the death of Socrates, which I quote from the "Phaedo."

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

Here he took up the Phaedo, the famous dialogue in which Socrates, on the day when he is to drink the poison, discusses the immortality of the soul.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church

In the Phaedo of Plato there is an incidental passage of supreme interest to the historian.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana

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