Plato''s Phaedo - Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

This comprehensive book on one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue's literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts. Topics include ethics, metaphysics, methodology, natural science, religion, cosmology, and the soul.

List of contents

1. The Characters; 2. The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy and Socrates as a Poet: 57a-61c; 3. Defense of the Desire to be Dead: 61c-69e; 4. Cebes' Challenge and the Cyclical Argument: 69e-72d; 5. The Recollecting Argument: 72e-77d; 6. The Kinship Argument: 77d-80d; 7. The Return to the Defense: 80d-84b; 8. Misology and the Soul as a Harmonia: 84c-86e, 88c-95a; 9. Socrates' Autobiography: 95e-102a; 10. Cebes' Objection and the Final Argument: 86e-88b, 102b-107b; 11. The Cosmos and the Afterlife: 107c-115a; 12. The Death Scene: 115a-118a.

About the author

David Ebrey is co-editor (with Richard Kraut) of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (2022), editor of Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science (2015), and the author of articles on a variety of topics in Plato and Aristotle.

Summary

This comprehensive book on one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue's literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts. Topics include ethics, metaphysics, methodology, natural science, religion, cosmology, and the soul.

Foreword

A comprehensive book on Plato's Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.

Product details

• Authors: David Ebrey, David (Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin) Ebrey, David (Universitat De Barcelona) Ebrey, Ebrey David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781108479943
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47994-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy of Science, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500