• Phædo or Phaedo (/ˈfiːdoʊ/; Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn [pʰaídɔːn]), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's...
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  • Phaedo of Elis (/ˈfiːdoʊ/; also, Phaedon; Greek: Φαίδων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, gen.: Φαίδωνος; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek philosopher. A native of Elis, he was...
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  • Plato develops the theory of anamnesis in his Socratic dialogues: Meno, Phaedo, and Phaedrus. In Meno, Plato's character (and old teacher) Socrates is...
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    this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. In this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens...
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  • philosophy was originally the School of Elis, where it had been founded by Phaedo of Elis; it was later transferred to Eretria by his pupil Menedemus. It...
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  • 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...
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  • original texts related to this article: Euthyphro Apology (Plato) Crito Phaedo The extant, primary sources about the history of the trial and execution...
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  • the trial, and is one of four Socratic dialogues, along with Euthyphro, Phaedo, and Crito, through which Plato details the final days of the philosopher...
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    interested in natural philosophy, which conforms to Plato's depiction of him in Phaedo. What is certain is that by the age of 45, Socrates had already captured...
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    The Phaedo most famously caused problems for scholars who were trying to understand this aspect of Plato's theory of the soul. Accordingly, the Phaedo presents...
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    for the name of the first-born son. Plato's portrayal of Xanthippe in the Phaedo suggests that she was a devoted wife and mother; this is the sole mention...
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    See this brief exchange from the Phaedo: "What is it that, when present in a body, makes it living? – A soul." Phaedo 105c. Plato, Timaeus 44d Archived...
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    Pythagoras. The Forms are typically described in dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic as perfect archetypes of which objects in the everyday...
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    his work Philosophia rationalis, sive logica (1728). In Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Socrates argues that true explanations for any given physical phenomenon...
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    ISBN 978-1-4549-0908-8. Plato (1909). "Phædo (Dialogues of Plato)". In Charles W. Eliot (ed.). The Apology, Phædo and Crito of Plato – The Golden Sayings...
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  • (Greek: Φαίδων) is a Greek given name. It can also be transliterated as Phaedo, Fedon, or Faidon. The meaning of Phaedon comes from the Greek words "φαι>φη>φως"...
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  • ancient Greek name that may refer to: Phaedo of Elis, philosopher Phaedo, one of Plato's dialogues named after Phaedo of Elis who appears in it Phaidon Press...
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  • all turned out to be unremarkable "fools and dullards". Plato, Apology 34d, Phaedo 116b. Plato, Phaedo, 60a. Aristotle. Rhetoric, Book 2 Chapter 15 [1]....
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  • fragment Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 228 — Laches, fragment Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 229 — Phaedo, fragment Nag Hammadi library – Republic 588A–589B, Coptic version The traditional...
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  • term as "soul" in the sense that he believed that it is immortal. In his Phaedo, Plato has Socrates give four arguments for the immortality of the soul...
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  • 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...
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    Durant, The Story of Philosophy. Plato, Phaedo, 60a, 63d-e, 115b-117a, 118a Plato, Apology, 38b Plato, Phaedo, 115d Plato, Crito, 44b-46a Xenophon, Memorabilia...
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  • son of Anthemion Meno Apology Apollodorus of Phalerum Symposium Apology, Phaedo Aristides of Alopece, son of Lysimachus Laches, Theages Theaetetus Aristodemus...
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    connotation of the thyrsus, and thereby Dionysus, in his philosophical Phaedo: I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were...
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  • in Plato's dialogue Phaedo which takes its name from him, and later became a major philosopher in his own right. The case of Phaedo got special attention...
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  • Zordon's assistant Alpha 5 sends the Rangers on a quest to the planet Phaedos to obtain the Great Power and save Zordon. On the Moon, Rita is initially...
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  • Sparta from 242 to 241 BC Cleombrotus of Ambracia, a character in Plato's Phaedo This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
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    useful purpose. Greek text at Perseus Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus. Greek with translation by Harold N. Fowler. Loeb Classical Library...
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  • Plato's Phaedo 1.7 (Westerink 1977, pp. 32–3) [= Orphic fr. 178 IV Bernabé (pp. 161–2)]; see also Bernabé 2002, p. 407. Damascius, in Plato's Phaedo 1.8 (Westerink...
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    Minor Ion Laches Laws Lysis Menexenus Meno Minos Parmenides Protagoras Phaedo Phaedrus Philebus Republic Rival Lovers Sophist Statesman Symposium Theaetetus...
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