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Phaedo
Plato · Classical · c. 360 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
11 chapters
The death of Socrates and his arguments for the immortality of the soul.
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Contents
- 1The Setting: Phaedo's Narrative Begins
- 2Why the Philosopher Desires Death
- 3The Argument from Opposites
- 4The Argument from Recollection
- 5The Affinity Argument
- 6Simmias and Cebes Object, Part 1
- 7Simmias and Cebes Object, Part 2
- 8Socrates' Intellectual Autobiography, Part 1
- 9Socrates' Intellectual Autobiography, Part 2
- 10The Myth of the True Earth
- 11The Death of Socrates
