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Plato's Phaedo, Adam Coberley
Plato's Phaedo, Adam Coberley
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
Plato's Phaedo is a work in which five complex language forms are used in an intertwining manner in order to form complex ideas. These five language forms are responsible for creating everything that comes out of the Phaedo and are responsible for the formation of any ideas that the reader might make. These forms, narrative frame, periods of debate and interlocution, long speeches, mythopoeisis, and allusions to the cultural corpus join together in order to form the Phaedo. This paper focuses on these concepts but makes more explicit use of the narrative frame to show how all five interact in …
The Consolation Of Philosophy, Heather Springgay
The Consolation Of Philosophy, Heather Springgay
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
The general situation and theme within Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and the Phaedo, contain striking similarities, but even more striking are the differences that redefine Boethius' work. The Consolation presents a work that in its basic text describes the time before Boethius' execution, while the Phaedo examines Socrates before he is put to death. In each work similar discussions on death and dying are presented. These aspects of the works, however, are where the similarities end. Instead, by placing Lady Philosophy in Socrates' position, the reader is able to examine the Phaedo as a dialogue on the life, death and …
Plato's Phaedo: Tragedy, Philosophy, And Backstabbing, Melody Wilson
Plato's Phaedo: Tragedy, Philosophy, And Backstabbing, Melody Wilson
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
Plato’s Phaedo, the final dialogue of the trilogy dealing with Socrates’ trial and death, show the extent to which Plato idealized and idolized Socrates. This paper asks the question, who exactly was Plato’s Socrates? It traces these themes of idealization and idolization throughout the Phaedo and suggests that, perhaps, Plato’s over-emphasis of these led to the less-than-stellar reception of the Phaedo during its time. In addition to this tracing of the above themes, the paper discusses the importance of the real-life characters that Plato leaves out of the Phaedo, again suggesting that this leads to a kind of idealization of …