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- English
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- Wyatt North
- ISBN
- 9781667300740
Within these conversations, Plato unveils the core tenets of his philosophy, including the distinction between body and soul, the concept of knowledge as recollection, and the foundational Theory of Forms. "Phaedo" is not merely a historical record of a philosopher's end; it is an enduring invitation to contemplate the nature of reality, the pursuit of wisdom, and the ultimate fate of the human spirit. It offers a testament to intellectual courage in the face of mortality, compelling readers to consider what truly transcends the physical world.
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Phaedo Translated by Benjamin Jowett
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Phaedo : (with Notes)(Biography)
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo (Oxford World's Classics)
2009 • Oxford University Press
English
Phaidon: Griechisch-deutsch (Philosophische Bibliothek) (German Edition)
1991 • F. Meiner
German
Phaedo : The Last Hours of Socrates
2020 • Independently Published
English
Other editions
Phaedo Translated by Benjamin Jowett
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Phaedo : (with Notes)(Biography)
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo (Oxford World's Classics)
2009 • Oxford University Press
English
Phaidon: Griechisch-deutsch (Philosophische Bibliothek) (German Edition)
1991 • F. Meiner
German
Phaedo : The Last Hours of Socrates
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2006 • Digireads.com
English
Phaedo (Large Print)
2006 • Read How You Want
English
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Phaedo [EasyRead Large Edition]
2007 • ReadHowYouWant.com
English
Le phédon
1994 • POCKET
French
Plato's Phaedo (Bobbs-Merrill Library of Liberal Arts)
1955 • Bobbs-Merrill Company
English
Plato: Phaedo (Library of Liberal Arts, No. 30)
1951 • Pearson
English
Phaedo (Oxford World's Classics)
1999 • Oxford University Press
English
Phaedo (Clarendon Paperbacks)
1979 • Clarendon Press
English
Phaedo
2019 • Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
English
Phaedo
1970 • MacMillan Coll Div
English
Werke Übersetzung und Kommentar
1993 • Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
German
Fedón
2013 • Colihue
Spanish
Phaedo or the Immortality of the Soul
2024 • Wildside Press
English
Fedon
2018 • Teologia Polityczna
Polish
Faidōn
2014 • Vivliopōleion tēs "Hestias", I.D. Kollarou & Sias A.E.
Modern Greek
Oeuvres complètes: Tome IV, 1re partie : Phédon. (Collection Des Universites De France) (French and Greek Edition)
2002 • Les Belles Lettres
French
Phaedo: Death of Socrates 3
2007 • BiblioBazaar
English
Fedon: Ruhun Bekasi
2021 • Çizgi Kitabevi Yayinlari
Turkish
Phédon - Le Banquet - Phèdre
1991 • GALLIMARD
French
Fedón. Fedro (Clasicos Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
2004 • MESTAS Ediciones, S.L.
Spanish
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2007 • Dodo Pr
English
Phaedo
2006 • Echo Library
English
Phaedo
2021 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
English
Phaedo
2021 • Sanage Publishing House
English
Phédon
1999 • FLAMMARION
French
Phaedo
2004 • Quiet Vision Pub
English
Fedón (Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
2002 • Tecnos
Spanish
Platonis Phaedon
2012 • Nabu Press
English
Phaedo
2002 • IndyPublish
English
Phaedo
2018 • Independently published
English
Phaedo
2013 • Start Classics
English
Phaidon Bütün Yapitlari 14
2015 • Say Yayinlari
Turkish
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Phaedo
2019 • Digireads.com Publishing
English
斐多 柏拉图对话录之一
2015 • 生活. 读书. 新知三联书店
Chinese
Ph�don : Un Dialogue de Platon Qui Raconte la Mort de Socrate et Ses Derni�res Paroles
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2003 • Indypublish.Com
English
Plato: Phaedo
2012 • Cambridge University Press
English
Phaedo
2004 • Kessinger Publishing, LLC
English
Phaedo
2011 • TREDITION CLASSICS
English
The Phaedo Ed. with intro., notes, and app
1973 • Arno Press
English
Phaedo (Clarendon Plato Series)
1977 • Clarendon Press
English
Phaedo: Death of Socrates 3
2007 • BiblioBazaar
English
Fedon (Dialogos socraticos) (Volume 2)
2015 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Phaedo
1875 • Binker North
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Poems of Heinrich Heine
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Fedon (Spanish Edition)
2014 • Agebe
Spanish
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Fedone, o dell'anima dramma etico in tre atti
2015 • Paolo Loffredo iniziative editoriali
Italian
Fedone. Testo greco a fronte
2011 • Einaudi
Italian
Phaedo
2002 • IndyPublish.com
English
Phaedo
2018 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2021 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Platons Phaedon
2022 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
German
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo: Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
PHAEDO (Dialogues of Plato)
2019 • Independently published
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Phaidon Griechisch und deutsch
2014 • Walter de Gruyter
German
Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Phedon; or, a Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul. From Plato,
2018 • Gale Ecco, Print Editions
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
English
Phaedo : (with Notes)(Biography)
2017 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently published
English
Phaedo: Large Print
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2021 • Blurb
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phedon; or, a Dialogue of the Immortality of the Soul. From Plato,
2018 • Gale Ecco, Print Editions
English
Phaedo : Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
English
Phaedo
2006 • ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phédon
2017 • Independently Published
French
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Phaedo
2018 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
English
Phaedo Annotated
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo (Esprios Classics)
2021 • Blurb, Incorporated
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2021 • Independently Published
English
Fed�n o Del Alma
2017 • Independently Published
Spanish
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Platons Phaedon (German Edition)
2022 • Legare Street Press
German
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo Annotated
2021 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2018 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Phaedo: Large Print
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Antiquarius
English
Phaedo Large Print
2020 • Independently Published
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Fedón
2003 • Altamira
Spanish
Phaedo : Large Print
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2005 • eBooksLib
English
Plato's Phaedo
2022 • Legare Street Press
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently published
English
Phaedo
2019 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo - Sokrates'in Olumu
2015 • Oda Yayınları
Turkish
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Phaedo
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Phaedo : Large Print
2020 • Independently Published
English
Plato's Phaedo
2018 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
English
Phaedo
2018 • Independently published
English
Phaedo : Pocket Edition
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2020 • Independently Published
English
Phaedo
2014 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Socrates, ever the philosopher, began not with lament, but with a discourse on why a true philosopher should welcome death. He explained that our bodies are but prisons, filled with desires and sensory distractions that hinder the soul's pursuit of truth. The eyes and ears, he argued, deceive us; true knowledge, the Forms of Beauty and Justice themselves, can only be grasped by the soul when it is unburdened by the flesh, through pure thought. Death, then, is not an end to be feared, but a liberation, a chance for the soul to finally achieve the wisdom it sought throughout life.
But my friends, Simmias and Cebes, though moved by his words, expressed their doubts. Cebes worried that the soul, upon leaving the body, might simply disperse like breath or smoke into nothingness. Socrates, with his gentle patience, began to lay out his arguments for the soul's immortality. He first spoke of how all things come from their opposites: the living from the dead, and the dead from the living, in an eternal cycle. If death were a final end, he reasoned, all life would eventually cease, never to return. Therefore, the souls of the dead must exist somewhere, preparing to be reborn.
Next, he turned to the theory of recollection, a concept that had long fascinated us. He reminded us that when we encounter imperfect earthly things, we recognize their shortcomings by comparing them to perfect, unchanging Forms that we must have known before this life. How else, he asked, could we grasp the concept of perfect equality or beauty if we had not encountered it with our souls in a pre-existent state? Learning, then, is not acquiring new knowledge, but remembering what our souls already knew, proving its existence before birth.
Socrates then offered the affinity argument. He contrasted the body, which is visible, composite, and mortal, with the soul, which is invisible, simple, and akin to the divine and unchanging Forms. Things that are composite can be broken apart, but what is simple and divine, like the soul, is more likely to endure. The body decays, yet the soul, if it has lived virtuously, can journey to a realm of pure thought, free from the earthly defilements that cling to an impure soul.
Simmias and Cebes, still grappling with their concerns, raised further objections, likening the soul to the harmony of a lyre, which ceases when the lyre is broken, or suggesting that the soul might wear out through many reincarnations. Socrates, however, addressed these with careful reasoning, reinforcing the idea of the eternal, unchanging Forms. He introduced his final argument, explaining that certain Forms inherently exclude their opposites. Just as the Form of Fire always brings heat and excludes cold, and the Form of Three always brings oddness and excludes evenness, so too does the Form of Life, which is inextricably linked to the soul, exclude death. Therefore, the soul, being that which brings life, cannot admit death; it is deathless and indestructible.
With these arguments, a profound sense of conviction settled upon us. Socrates then painted a vivid picture of the true Earth, far more beautiful and pure than the one we inhabit, and spoke of the different fates awaiting souls in the afterlife, depending on their deeds in life. He described a journey to a place of judgment and purification, or to a realm of blessedness for those who lived justly and philosophically. He urged us to live well, for the prize is great and the hope glorious.
As the sun began to set, the prison attendant arrived with the cup of hemlock. Socrates took it without a tremor, his face calm, his gaze unwavering. He offered a prayer to the gods, asking for a prosperous journey for his soul. Then, he drank the poison. We watched, tears streaming down our faces, as the coldness spread through his limbs. His last words, whispered to Crito, were about a debt owed to Asclepius, a rooster to be sacrificed. And then, he was gone, a man of unparalleled wisdom, facing death not with fear, but with the quiet confidence of a soul preparing for its true home.
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