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Mar 2021
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Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On Plato's middle dialogue depicting the death of Socrates (390 BCE) depicting the death of Socrates. Should philosophers fear death?

In the course of giving arguments for the immortality of the soul, we get an elaboration of the recollection theory of knowledge (from the Meno) into Plato's first full account of Forms. But how literally are we supposed to take the words of Socrates as he comforts himself facing mortality?

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