Plato

Phaedo

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The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each other in his philosophy.

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Preface	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction
The purpose of the dialogue and its position in the Platonic writings	p. 3
Stylometric arguments. The transcendent forms	p. 8
The nature of the soul	p. 11
The characters	p. 12
The arguments for the immortality of the soul	p. 16
Arguments for immortality in other dialogues	p. 19
Translation and Commentary
57A-59C: Introductory conversation	p. 27
59C-62C: Socrates as poet. The wickedness of suicide	p. 32
62C-64C: The philosopher's readiness to die	p. 39
64C-67B: The philosopher's detachment from the body	p. 44
67B-69E: Moral virtue, genuine and spurious	p. 52
69E-72D: The first argument for immortality. The cycle of opposites	p. 58
72E-77A: A complementary argument. The theory of recollection	p. 66
77A-78B: Combined results of the two preceding arguments. Socrates as charmer	p. 78
78B-80C: Third argument. The kinship of souls and forms	p. 81
80C-82D: The after-life of unpurified souls	p. 87
82D-85B: Socrates describes the philosopher's progress and declares his swan-song to be a song of joy	p. 92
85B-88B: Simmias and Cebes explain their doubts	p. 97
88C-91C: Interlude. A warning against 'misology'	p. 105
91C-95A: Refutation of Simmias's theory of soul	p. 112
95A-99D: Socrates as student of natural science	p. 121
99D-102A: The new method of hypothesis	p. 133
102A-105B: The exclusion of opposites	p. 147
105B-107B: The argument concluded. Soul is both deathless and indestructible	p. 158
107C-110B: Myth of the after-life	p. 167
110B-112E: The splendour of the true earth. The rivers of the underworld	p. 176
112E-115A: The myth concluded. Its truth and value	p. 182
115B-118: The last scene	p. 187
Additional Notes	p. 191
The Criticisms of Strato	p. 195
Index of Names	p. 199
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