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  The Internet Classics Archive | Phaedo by Plato
PHAEDO, who is the narrator of the dialogue to ECHECRATES of Phlius
Were you yourself, Phaedo, in the prison with Socrates on the day when he drank the poison?
As I was saying, the ship was crowned on the day before the trial, and this was the reason why Socrates lay in prison and was not put to death until long after he was condemned.
classics.mit.edu /Plato/phaedo.html   (8586 words)

  
  Phaedo - LoveToKnow 1911
PHAEDO, Greek philosopher, founder of the Elian school, was a native of Elis, born in the last years of the 5th century B.C. In the war of 401-400 between Sparta and Elis he was taken prisoner and became a slave in Athens, where his beauty brought him notoriety.
Athenaeus relates, however, that he resolutely declined responsibility for any of the views with which Plato credits him, and that the relations between him and Plato were the reverse of friendly.
The doctrines of Phaedo are not known, nor is it possible to infer them from the Platonic dialogue.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Phaedo   (247 words)

  
  Theology WebSite: Electronic Texts: Plato's Phaedo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Phaedo is also present, the 'beloved disciple' as he may be termed, who is described, if not 'leaning on his bosom,' as seated next to Socrates, who is playing with his hair.
The Phaedo is the tragedy of which Socrates is the protagonist and Simmias and Cebes the secondary performers, standing to them in the same relation as to Glaucon and Adeimantus in the Republic.
PHAEDO: It is the ship in which, according to Athenian tradition, Theseus went to Crete when he took with him the fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself.
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 PHAEDO
PHAEDO:  An accident, Echecrates:  the stern of the ship which the Athenians send to Delos happened to have been crowned on the day before he was tried.
PHAEDO:  It is the ship in which, according to Athenian tradition, Theseus went to Crete when he took with him the fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself.
PHAEDO:  Of native Athenians there were, besides Apollodorus, Critobulus and his father Crito, Hermogenes, Epigenes, Aeschines, Antisthenes; likewise Ctesippus of the deme of Paeania, Menexenus, and some others; Plato, if I am not mistaken, was ill.
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 PHAEDO
PHAEDO:  An accident, Echecrates:  the stern of the ship which the Athenians send to Delos happened to have been crowned on the day before he was tried.
PHAEDO:  It is the ship in which, according to Athenian tradition, Theseus went to Crete when he took with him the fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself.
PHAEDO:  Of native Athenians there were, besides Apollodorus, Critobulus and his father Crito, Hermogenes, Epigenes, Aeschines, Antisthenes; likewise Ctesippus of the deme of Paeania, Menexenus, and some others; Plato, if I am not mistaken, was ill.
www.southerncrossreview.org /31/phaedo2.htm   (2014 words)

  
 Plato : Phaedo
Insofar as both Phaedo and Socrates pause in the course of their discussions at this point, we may see that the recollection argument has failed to show the immortality of the soul.
Phaedo then remarks to Echecrates, pausing in the course of his hitherto uninterrupted account of Socrates' final hours and his arguments for the immortality of the soul, saying that, because of this objection, those present had their "…faith shaken," and that their was introduced "a confusion and uncertainty" (Phaedo, 88c).
The Phaedo is the fourth book of the series detailing Socrates' trial and final hours, the first three being Euthyphro, Crito, and Apology.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/PlatoPhaedo.html   (4252 words)

  
 Phaedo - PLATO ~ Plato ~ Benjamin Jowett ~ eBookMall ~ eBooks
Though Plato himself was apparently ill and not present at the prison on the day of Socrates' death, Phaedo was, and the discussion was surely recounted to him, perhaps much in the same way as this dialog is recounted by Phaedo for Echecrates.
Phaedo was from a noble family in Elis, but when that city was defeated in 401 BC he was captured and forced into a house of prostitution.
However, Phaedo managed to slip out to listen to Socrates, who eventually persuaded either Cebes or Alcibiades or Crito and their friends to ransom him so that he could be free and study philosophy.
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 PHAEDO by Plato
Though Plato himself was apparently ill and not present at the prison on the day of Socrates' death, the discussion was surely recounted to him, perhaps much in the same way as this dialog is recounted by Phaedo for Echecrates.
Phaedo was from a noble family in Elis, but when that city was defeated in 401 BC he was captured and forced into a house of prostitution.
However, Phaedo managed to slip out to listen to Socrates, who eventually persuaded either Cebes or Alcibiades or Crito and their friends to ransom him so that he could be free and study philosophy.
www.san.beck.org /Phaedo.html   (5526 words)

  
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PHAEDO: The Athenians say that it is the one in which Theseus sailed away to Crete with the seven youths and seven maidens, and saved their lives and his own as well.
PHAEDO: Well, he quite lost control of himself, and I and the others were very much upset.
PHAEDO: Why, of the local people there were this man Apollodorus, and Critobulus and his father, and then there were Hermogenes and Epigenes and Aeschines and Antisthenes.
www.anselm.edu /homepage/dbanach/phaedo.htm   (9895 words)

  
 NovelGuide: Phaedo: Novel Summary: Summary
The Phaedo begins when Echecrates asks Phaedo to tell him about Socrates' death, and Phaedo warmly welcomes the chance to remember his friend Socrates in the final hours of his life.
He says that it was an astonishing experience because although he was witnessing the death of a dear friend, he had no pity because of the way in which Socrates bravely and happily faced it, unafraid of the unknown.
Phaedo says that he felt ashamed for crying when Socrates was so dignified, and then the great philosopher and man took his last breath of air before dying.
www.novelguide.com /phaedo/novelsummary.html   (1541 words)

  
 Plato's Phaedo: A Summary of the Immortality of the Soul, Part One - Associated Content
Phaedo, along with the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro, are known to many scholars as a tetralogy, since they deal with the trial and death of Socrates.
Phaedo is the longest and richest dialogue of the aforementioned tetralogy.
Phaedo is glad to oblige, relating the philosophical discussion that they had before Socrates had to drink the poison.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/104814/platos_phaedo_a_summary_of_the_immortality.html   (554 words)

  
 Phaedo of Elis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phaedo of Elis was a (4th century BC) Greek philosopher and founder of the Elian school.
Phaedo was a native of Elis, born in the last years of the 5th century BC.
The doctrines of Phaedo are not known, nor is it possible to infer them from the Platonic dialogue of which he is the namesake.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaedo_of_Elis   (323 words)

  
 Phaedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The story is related by Phaedo to Echecrates (two non-Athenian disciples), in a foreign land (probably Elis- a city with which Athens was at war at the time of the telling).
It is well to note that the Phaedo, besides being told to a foreigner by a foreigner in a foreign land, and concerning Socrates conversations with foreign disciples, is full of foreign ideas - the notions that Socrates tries to defend are not Greek, but in fact sound Hindu: karma and reincarnation(82a).
Phaedo says that when he arrived at the prison, Xanthippe was already there and sitting with a small boy on her lap.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phaedo   (2808 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Plato: Phaedo: Books: Plato,C. J. Rowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the end of the Phaedo, we witness Socrates drink the hemlock, without fear or trembling, as a philosopher should know the value of life and welcome death with a firm hope.
In his work Phaedo, Plato utilizes the character of Socrates, before his death by poison in prison, as a vehicle for establishing the existence of, and immortality of, the human soul.
Though his arguments often make bold jumps that are difficult to reconcile, he does a more than admirable job of molding a logical argument for the existence of the soul, by taking on a number of possible objections to the theory, objections which are both abstract and somewhat scientific in nature.
www.amazon.ca /Plato-Phaedo/dp/052131318X   (1080 words)

  
 The Phaedo: A Commentary - Don Paarlberg - The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Jorunal
As Phaedo relates, many of Socrates' acquaintances were present, including his good friend Crito, though Plato was absent due to illness.
It is on this basis that Socrates explains, in response to the question that Phaedo could not quite remember, why his position here does not contradict the second argument that opposites are generated from opposites.
Although Plato's specific arguments in the Phaedo fail, I believe the metaphysical position he portrays in his third argument (from recollection and the forms) is basically correct in asserting that there is an invisible, eternal aspect of reality.
www.examinedlifejournal.com /archives/vol2ed5/phaedo.html   (7392 words)

  
 Kristen's Honors Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates is fearless in the face of death, and because of this, he rouses concern and confusion in his companions.
This is because in death, one’s “soul comes to be separated by itself apart from the body” (Phaedo 64c), and so to prepare the soul to be purified of its ties to the body at death, one must abstain from sex and gluttony, and all other activities that tie a person to the body.
It is because of this that Socrates says he is prepared to die—he has prepared his soul, as far as is possible while his body is still confining it, to die and to come to whatever divine knowledge it is that well-prepared souls come to when their bodies die.
www2.bc.edu /~hewittkr/Phaedo.html   (1225 words)

  
 Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The argument of the Phaedo begins from Plato's assertion that the soul seeks freedom from the body so that it may best grasp truth, because the body hinders and distracts it: the soul comes to be separate (choris) from the body, itself by itself ((aute kath auten) (64c5-8)).
The Phaedo's discussion of recollection begins with a remark by Cebes in support of the claim that our souls preexist their incarceration in the body: “Such is also the case if that theory is true that you are accustomed to mention frequently, that for us learning is no other than recollection.
As we saw in the Phaedo, as well as in the passages about the sightlovers and the summoners, the senses are disparaged as a source of confusion and falsehood.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-metaphysics   (17815 words)

  
 Phaedo notes
Phaedo or Phaedon of Ellis had come to Athens as a prisoner of war and legend says that he was enslaved in a brothel but won his release with the help philosophers.
Phaedo reenacts the discussion in more detail than anyone could possibly have remembered, which raises the issue of Phaedo's credibility.
The dead are gathered for judgment: the conclusion of the Socrates' speech--his vision of the afterlife, hell and heaven--places "Phaedo" in the context of Hellenic mystery ritual, where the initiates are made wise with knowledge of the world beyond.
englishare.net /academic/plato-phaedo-footnotes.htm   (2273 words)

  
 Phaedo’s Mistake: Socratic Dialogues and Philosophical Authority
The historical Phaedo wrote Socratic dialogues, and I show that the references to his lost works indicate that they were preoccupied with the character and physicality of Socrates.
In Plato's Phaedo Socrates advises Phaedo and his other interlocutors to set aside their personal regard for him and their anxieties about his execution in their analysis of his arguments.
I propose that here Plato is suggesting that the fixation of Socratic authors such as Phaedo on the person of Socrates rather than on the pursuit of truth he championed constitutes a misunderstanding of the Socratic enterprise.
www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/long.html   (421 words)

  
 Plato's Phaedo 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This translation of Plato's Phaedo was prepared by Benjamin Jowett and first published in 1871.
When we had been so firmly convinced before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion and uncertainty, not only into the previous argument, but into any future one; either we were not good judges, or there were no real grounds of belief.
You shall hear, for I was close to him on his right hand, seated on a sort of stool, and he on a couch which was a good deal higher.
www.hermetic-philosophy.com /plato_phaedo1.htm   (9505 words)

  
 Phaedo
PHAEDO, who is the narrator of the dialogue
When we had been so firmly convinced before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion and uncertainty, not only into the previous argument, but into any future one ; either we were not good judges, or there were no real grounds of belief.
You shall hear, for I was close to him on his right hand, seated on a sort of stool, and he on a couch which was a good deal higher.
www.ac-nice.fr /philo/textes/Plato-Works/18-Phaedo.htm   (9554 words)

  
 Plato, Phaedo ToC: The Online Library of Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The soul of man in the Timaeus (42 foll.) is derived from the Supreme Creator, and either returns after death to her kindred star, or descends into the lower life of an animal.
The Theaetetus also describes, in a digression, the desire of the soul to fly away and be with God—‘and to fly to him is to be like him’ (176 B).
  Phaedo is requested by Echecrates to give an account of the death of Socrates.
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 PHAEDO by Plato - Complete text
When we had been so firmly convinced before, now to have our faith shaken seemed to introduce a confusion and uncertainty, not only into the previous argument, but into any future one; either we were not good judges, or there were no real grounds of belief.
You shall hear, for I was close to him on his right hand, seated on a sort of stool, and he on a couch which was a good deal higher.
Now he had a way of playing with my hair, and then he smoothed my head, and pressed the hair upon my neck, and said: Tomorrow, Phaedo, I suppose that these fair locks of yours will be severed.
ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/plato/plato-phaedo.asp   (9359 words)

  
 Plato: Phaedo - Cambridge University Press
$65.00 (C) Plato's dialogue Phaedo portrays Socrates in prison awaiting execution and discussing with his friends the fate of the soul after death.
In this edition, consisting of introduction, text and commentary, Professor Rowe guides the reader through the difficulties--linguistic, literary and philosophical--of individual passages and of the dialogue as a whole.
The comparative beginner is not neglected, but the commentary is intended for any student, classical scholar, or philosopher with an interest in the close reading of Plato.
www.cambridge.org /us/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521307961   (79 words)

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