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Phædo or Phaedo (/ ˈ f iː d oʊ /; Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn [pʰaídɔːn]), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, [1] is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium.
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus. University of Chicago Press. Blyth, Dougal. 1997. “The Ever-Moving Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus.” The American Journal of Philology 118: 185–217. Campbell, Douglas R. "Self‐Motion and Cognition: Plato's Theory of the Soul" Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (4): 523 ...
The traditional division of the works of Plato into tetralogies was done by Thrasyllus of Mendes. [6] The list includes works of doubtful authenticity (in italic), as well as the Letters. 1st tetralogy Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo; 2nd tetralogy Cratylus, Theatetus, Sophist, Statesman; 3rd tetralogy Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Plato Phaedo, 1911: edited with introduction and notes by John Burnet (Oxford: Clarendon Press) Jane M. Day 1994 Plato's Meno in Focus (London: Routledge) – contains an introduction and full translation by Day, together with papers on Meno by various philosophers
Phaedo was present at the death of Socrates in 399 BCE, and was young enough for Socrates to stroke his hair, [2] which was worn long in the Spartan style. [5] That Phaedo was friends with Plato seems likely from the way in which he is introduced in Plato's dialogue Phaedo, which takes its name from him.
Echecrates (Greek: Ἐχεκράτης) was a Pythagorean philosopher from the ancient Greek town of Phlius. [1]He appears in Plato's Phaedo dialogue as an aid to the plot. He meets Phaedo, the dialogue's namesake, some time after the execution of Socrates, and asks Phaedo to tell him the story of the famed philosopher's last hours. [2]
Plato often invokes, particularly in his dialogues Phaedo, Republic and Phaedrus, poetic language to illustrate the mode in which the Forms are said to exist. Near the end of the Phaedo , for example, Plato describes the world of Forms as a pristine region of the physical universe located above the surface of the Earth ( Phd. 109a–111c).
Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ / PLAY-toe; [1] Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn; born c. 428–423 BC, died 348 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.