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Phaedo

In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition

By Plato

First written c. 380s BCE

About this book

Jowett’s translation of the Phaedo, set on the last day of Socrates’ life: philosophy as the practice of dying, the arguments for the immortality of the soul, knowledge as recollection, and the death of Socrates.

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Title
Phaedo: In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition
Translated by
Benjamin Jowett
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year
1892

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Modern1800 CE to 1945 CE

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