Plato's PHAEDO PDF (Text)
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The Phaedo presents Socrates’ final conversation. What will become of Socrates once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution? Socrates and his friends examine several arguments designed to prove that the soul is immortal and that the death of the body does not result in killing the soul. But, as is often the case in Plato’s dialogues, this work is not only about the immortality of the soul, it is one of the dialogues in which Plato presents the so-called “theory of forms,” a way of explaining what all instances of knowing and being have in common. Although Socrates is the central character in Plato’s Phaedo, Simmias and Cebes introduce conflicting ideas from the Pythagorean tradition that are subjected to careful analysis.
This version of Plato's Phaedo contains the unabridged text in pdf format. Albert A. Anderson translated the Greek text into contemporary English.
Copyright 2010 by Agora Publications. All rights reserved.
This version of Plato's Phaedo contains the unabridged text in pdf format. Albert A. Anderson translated the Greek text into contemporary English.
Copyright 2010 by Agora Publications. All rights reserved.