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Edited by Evelyn Abbott, Hellenica. Bury, History of Greece. Davies and Vaughan, Plato's Republic. Welldon, Aristotle's Politics. Peters, Aristotle's Ethics. Bridges, The Spirit of Man. 'The Unity of Western Civilization, c. The Spirit of Man, 40; Phaedo, 96. The Spirit of Man, 16; Phaedo, 66. Natural Religion, part ii, c. 5. De An. ii. 4, 415, p. 35. The Spirit of Man, 39; Aristotle, Met. 10.
The governor of the prison from whom I heard these details, told me that he should all his life regret that he did not know shorthand, so that he might have noted all these thoughts, which would have formed a pendant to the Phaedo. Night came. Sand spent part of the evening writing; it is thought that he was composing a poem; but no doubt he burned it, for no trace of it was found.
For, as Plato says in the Phaedo, "whence come wars and fightings and factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the body? For wars are occasioned by the love of money." So also are the majority of the anxieties of life. We left these behind when we went into the Provinces with no design of acquiring anything there.
He might be compared to a general rallying his defeated and broken army, urging them to accompany him and return to the field of argument. ECHECRATES: What followed? PHAEDO: You shall hear, for I was close to him on his right hand, seated on a sort of stool, and he on a couch which was a good deal higher.
And if Phaedo exceeds him in size, this is not because Phaedo is Phaedo, but because Phaedo has greatness relatively to Simmias, who is comparatively smaller? That is true.
I am at leisure, and will endeavor to give you a full account: for to call Socrates to mind, whether speaking myself or listening to some one else, is always most delightful to me. Ech. And indeed, Phaedo, you have others to listen to you who are of the same mind. However, endeavor to relate everything as accurately as you can. Phæd.
He endeavoured to prove in his Phaedo, that the soul cannot be annihilated, by showing that a simple being cannot cease to exist.
To men who maintained that science was impossible, philosophy is not much indebted, although they were disciples of Socrates. Euclid not the mathematician, who was about a century later merely gave a new edition of the Eleatic doctrines, and Phaedo speculated on the oneness of "the good." It was not till Plato arose that a more complete system of philosophy was founded.
MAGNO ARGUMENTO: ‛ικανον τεκμηριον in Pl. Phaed. 72 A. Belief in the immortality of the soul naturally follows the acceptance of the doctrine of pre-existence. HOMINES SCIRE etc.: See Plato, Phaedo, 72 E-73 B. The notion that the souls of men existed before the bodies with which they are connected has been held in all ages and has often found expression in literature.
So Plato once more declares his dissatisfaction with a Socratic tenet which identified virtue with knowledge. The Phaedo describes Socrates' discussion of the immortality of the soul on his last day on earth.
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