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Phaedo — Plato

Phaedo

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 105 pages

Phaedo is a philosophical dialogue by Plato. It recounts Socrates' final conversation with friends before his death and explores the immortality of the soul and the philosopher's attitude toward death. It is worth listening to for its vivid portrayal of Socrates and its influential arguments.

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Opening of the book

PHAEDO
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION.
After an interval of some months or years, and at
Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours
of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians
by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily
takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be
described acting as well as speaking. The minutest
particulars of the event are interesting to distant
friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.

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Contents

  1. PHAEDO
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. PHAEDO
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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