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
See the passage from the Phaedo quoted by Sir Alfred Lyall.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
On the influence of Platonism, see Esquirol and others, as above—the main passage cited is from the Phaedo.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
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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