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An Explication Of The Phaedo, Thahn Ngo
An Explication Of The Phaedo, Thahn Ngo
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
Plato’s Phaedo has multiple meanings and uses its narrative framework, sets up debates, and implements myths and allusions in order to present this multiplicity of meaning. This paper looks at the above characteristics in the Phaedo and interrogates their use. The Phaedo is nominally about the last hours of Socrates’s life, but it contains far more than mere biography. This paper traces the ways Plato uses this basic framework to create a multi-faceted work.
The Phaedo: A Painting In Three Parts, Sharon Parker
The Phaedo: A Painting In Three Parts, Sharon Parker
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
This paper argues that Plato’s Phaedo might be interestingly viewed as a painting: a landscape in three parts. This triptych is unified through the central question of the immortality of the human soul. This paper traces this conception of the Phaedo through an interrogation of the textual markers that might lead to an understanding of the whole. In the end, The Phaedo is seen as ascending from the corporeal to the ethereal.