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Phaedo
Plato
Socrates spends his final hours arguing that the soul survives the body, then drinks the hemlock while his friends fall apart around him. Whether the arguments work is still debated; the closing scene is not. The link is to Penguin's Last Days of Socrates, which collects it with Euthyphro, Apology and Crito.
Why you should read this
This dialogue depicts Socrates' final conversation before his execution and lays out Plato's central arguments for the immortality of the soul. It is read as much for how it stages a philosopher's death as for the metaphysical argument built around it.
- Field
- Philosophy
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 380 BCE
- Themes
- Philosophy, Ancient GreecePhilosophy
