Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On Plato's middle dialogue depicting the death of Socrates (390 BCE) depicting the death of Socrates. Should philosophers fear death?
In the course of giving arguments for the immortality of the soul, we get an elaboration of the recollection theory of knowledge (from the Meno) into Plato's first full account of Forms. But how literally are we supposed to take the words of Socrates as he comforts himself facing mortality?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one |
| 0:11.2 | point sitting on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:14.1 | Our question for episode 265 is something like, does the soul persist after death? |
| 0:19.1 | We're reading Plato's dialogue, Fado, probably written around 390 BC. |
| 0:24.1 | For more information, please visit partiallyexaminelife.com. |
| 0:26.8 | This is Mark Linton, my ex-changing all my coins for wisdom in medicine Wisconsin. |
| 0:31.1 | This is Seth Pascon, probably not on my last body for this soul in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:39.5 | This is Wes AllOne trying to perfect the art of dying in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:44.8 | This is Dylan Casey wondering if the jacket I bought this weekend will all live me or not |
| 0:49.9 | in medicine Wisconsin. |
| 0:51.8 | The Fado, man, why didn't we do this eight years ago? |
| 0:58.0 | I guess I thought it was redundant of other things. |
| 1:00.2 | I remember reading this as an undergrad and really being turned off by it because it was |
| 1:04.0 | just so, oh yeah, the soul persists after death. |
| 1:06.7 | I didn't want to hear this from philosophy. |
| 1:08.4 | I didn't want to hear the dogma that I was raised on being affirmed by Socrates. |
| 1:14.3 | I liked the apology. |
| 1:16.2 | I liked other things by him, but this one just turned me off and I thought it was much |
| 1:20.6 | shorter than it was. |
| 1:21.6 | I thought this would be not even a whole episode's worth, but it is beefy. |
| 1:26.0 | It's like a whole statement of everything in Plato, all in one little dialogue. |
| 1:31.1 | Yes. |
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