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A translation with introduction and commentary of Plato's Phaedo. This celebrated dialogue describes the last conversations in prison between Socrates and his friends. Socrates' bearing in the last hours before his execution, the devotion of his friends, the admiration of his jailer, and his reasoned conviction that the human soul survives the death of the body are all portrayed with moving simplicity and admiration.
Professor Hackforth here translated the dialogue for the student and general reader. There is a running commentary on the course of the argument and the meaning of the key Greek terms, and a full introduction to explain the philosophical background and the place of this work among Plato's writings.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781835918678 |
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Publisher: | Magic Publisher |
Publication date: | 04/30/2024 |
Pages: | 74 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.15(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface | ix | |
List of Abbreviations | x | |
Introduction | ||
I | The purpose of the dialogue and its position in the Platonic writings | 3 |
II | Stylometric arguments. The transcendent forms | 8 |
III | The nature of the soul | 11 |
IV | The characters | 12 |
V | The arguments for the immortality of the soul | 16 |
VI | Arguments for immortality in other dialogues | 19 |
Translation and Commentary | ||
I | 57A-59C: Introductory conversation | 27 |
II | 59C-62C: Socrates as poet. The wickedness of suicide | 32 |
III | 62C-64C: The philosopher's readiness to die | 39 |
IV | 64C-67B: The philosopher's detachment from the body | 44 |
V | 67B-69E: Moral virtue, genuine and spurious | 52 |
VI | 69E-72D: The first argument for immortality. The cycle of opposites | 58 |
VII | 72E-77A: A complementary argument. The theory of recollection | 66 |
VIII | 77A-78B: Combined results of the two preceding arguments. Socrates as charmer | 78 |
IX | 78B-80C: Third argument. The kinship of souls and forms | 81 |
X | 80C-82D: The after-life of unpurified souls | 87 |
XI | 82D-85B: Socrates describes the philosopher's progress and declares his swan-song to be a song of joy | 92 |
XII | 85B-88B: Simmias and Cebes explain their doubts | 97 |
XIII | 88C-91C: Interlude. A warning against 'misology' | 105 |
XIV | 91C-95A: Refutation of Simmias's theory of soul | 112 |
XV | 95A-99D: Socrates as student of natural science | 121 |
XVI | 99D-102A: The new method of hypothesis | 133 |
XVII | 102A-105B: The exclusion of opposites | 147 |
XVIII | 105B-107B: The argument concluded. Soul is both deathless and indestructible | 158 |
XIX | 107C-110B: Myth of the after-life | 167 |
XX | 110B-112E: The splendour of the true earth. The rivers of the underworld | 176 |
XXI | 112E-115A: The myth concluded. Its truth and value | 182 |
XXII | 115B-118: The last scene | 187 |
Additional Notes | 191 | |
The Criticisms of Strato | 195 | |
Index of Names | 199 |