Phaedo - Plato - Books - Independently Published - 9798681164272 - October 27, 2020
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Phaedo

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Book Excerpt: ...raid of greater dangers, and temperate because they desire greater pleasures. But he disdains this balancing of pleasures and pains, which is the exchange of commerce and not of virtue. All the virtues, including wisdom, are regarded by him only as purifications of the soul. And this was the meaning of the founders of the mysteries when they said, 'Many are the wand-bearers but few are the mystics.' (Compare Matt. xxii.: 'Many are called but few are chosen.') And in the hope that he is one of these mystics, Socrates is now departing. This is his answer to any one who charges him with indifference at the prospect of leaving the gods and his friends. Still, a fear is expressed that the soul upon leaving the body may vanish away like smoke or air. Socrates in answer appeals first of all to the old Orphic tradition that the souls of the dead are in the world below, and that the living come from them. This he attempts to found on a philosophical assumption that all opposites--e.g. less, greater; weaker, str...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 27, 2020
ISBN13 9798681164272
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 96
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   140 g
Language English  

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