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Phaedo (Oxford World's Classics) New Ed Edition

by Plato (Author), David Gallop (Author)
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The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the understanding of many ideas deeply ingrained in western culture, and provides one of the best introductions to Plato's thought. This new edition is eminently suitable for readers new to Plato, offering a readable translation which is accessible without the aid of a commentary and assumes no prior knowledge of the ancient Greek world or language.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0192839535
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0192839534
  3. Edition
    New Ed
  4. Publisher
    Oxford University Press
  5. Publication date
    October 28, 1999
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.5 x 0.4 x 4.9 inches
  8. Print length
    144 pages
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"An excellent philosophical commentary on the Phaedo. Lucidly sets out all the salient problems and controversies."--J.M. Dillon, University of Washington

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Plato's masterpiece on the execution of Socrates

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 28, 1999
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ New Ed
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192839535
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192839534
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.99 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.4 x 4.9 inches
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Plato (428-348 BCE) was a philosopher and mathematician in ancient Greece. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, his Academy was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy.

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  • Jeff Marzano
    4.0 out of 5 stars Talks About The Nature Of The Soul
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2006
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    I guess the main idea here is whether or not the soul is immortal.

    Does the soul exist outside of this physical, earthly experience ?

    I've only begun reading Plato after years of reading a lot of other new age type books such as the Edgar Cayce material and Dr. Brian Weiss.

    Plato is often consistent with those new age ideas but he expresses his thoughts in a more poetic way.

    Plato and those others believed in reincarnation and even being reborn as an animal.

    A new age theory about this is that if you go back to 10,500 BC and beyond you had a lot of people running around with for example the body of a human being but the head of a horse, tree branches for arms, etc..

    Most people had tails back then.

    This was a result of people projecting themselves into this physical dimension and getting entangled in the animal and plant worlds. As they did this across multiple incarnations they started to develop those animal appendages in their physical bodies.

    It was in ancient Egypt around 10,500 BC that the priest Ra Ta and other Atlanteans helped these "things" to rid themselves of these animal characteristics.

    That "mystery of mysteries" the sphinx is a creature that is part human and part lion. Don't think this doesn't have some very deep and hidden meaning.

    Another key point in the book is the death of Socrates. He dies like a true philosopher, not in fear, but calmly.

    At one point Socrates actually proves that one plus one is not equal to two. That's power.

    Jeff Marzano

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  • J. M. P.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018
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    Great read, wish it were longer!!
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  • FrKurt Messick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Socrates' final hours
    Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2005
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    Socrates is unique among philosophers, not just for his place among the early Greek philosophers, but also for the fact that he is the most famous philosopher to never write his own books. What we know of Socrates comes from contemporary accounts and students, most particularly Plato.

    Set in 399 BCE, the Phaedo is a reconstruction of Socrates final conversations with friends on the day he died. We do not know when this dialogue was written, but it was probably before The Republic (Plato's most famous work, also featuring the figure of Socrates). Like The Republic, this dialogue features a well developed theory of Forms -- these are introduced gradually here, slowly filling out the details of each step. This develops the story of the caves idea from Plato's earlier work in epistemological, metaphysical, moral, and semantic terms. Plato also advances the 'imperfection argument' here -- the idea that when we sense something, it is never perfectly the thing we are thinking of, and that idea or standard to which we relate what we see, hear, feel, etc. is tying into a more perfect Form.

    However, the idea of the soul is rather less developed here than in The Republic. The soul is simply mind, or intellect - all emotions are here placed as bodily aspects. This is rather Pythagorean in a fashion, that only the soul grasps the perfect Forms, and so should consist of nothing but reasoning ability, for emotions distort and cloud the perceptions and judgments.

    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. The story is almost religious in nature here.

    David Gallop's translation is good and true to the original (in as much as I can tell from my small Greek learning). It is somewhat tending toward the formal side. This is serious stuff, but in a small number of pages manages to capture much, and this makes it all the more relevant.
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