Phædo or Phaedo, known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium.
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Phædo or Phaedo, known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium.
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Phaedo tells the story that following the discussion, he and the others were there to witness the death of Socrates.
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Phaedo was first translated into Latin from Greek by Henry Aristippus in 1160.
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Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates, a Pythagorean philosopher.
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Phaedo explains why a delay occurred between his trial and his death, and describes the scene in a prison at Athens on the final day, naming those present.
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Phaedo tells how he had visited Socrates early in the morning with the others.
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Phaedo says, "I too believe that the gods are our guardians, and that we men are a chattel of theirs".
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Phaedo goes on to show, using examples of relationships, such as asleep-awake and hot-cold, that things that have opposites come to be from their opposite.
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Phaedo begins by showing that "if there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty it is beautiful only insofar as it partakes of absolute beauty".
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Plato's Phaedo had a significant readership throughout antiquity, and was commented on by a number of ancient philosophers, such as Harpocration of Argos, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Paterius, Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus and Proclus.
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