Phaedo

American  

[fee-doh] / ˈfi doʊ /

noun

1. a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.

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Example Sentences

Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Imbibe the Republic or Phaedo at 19, and you will be one kind of person; study Jane Eyre or Mrs. Dalloway, and you will be another.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Friend Corliss Lament sent round his suggestions for summer reading in Maine�the Apology, Crito, Phaedo, etc.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, with the catchwords of Utilitarianism ringing in their ears, the commentators ran straight contrary to the true teaching of the Protagoras, consentient as it is with that of the Phaedo and the Philebus.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

See the passage from the Phaedo quoted by Sir Alfred Lyall.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir