The Phaedo's Final Argument

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 2:165-180 (1976)
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If one includes the methodological preface the final argument of the Phaedo is by far the longest, as well as the one Socrates’ audience and Plato's readers are most ready to accept, and is often regarded as the one argument in the Phaedo that Plato himself accepted. Nevertheless it is also the most obscure, elusive, and frustrating of the arguments, whose intention as well as validity are in continual dispute. It has aptly been compared to an intricate maze, and while it is perhaps appropriate that Socrates, who is portrayed in the dialogue as a kind of Theseus battling the Minotaur of fear of death, should finally pick his way through a labyrinth of distinctions, it is exceptionally difficult for the reader to find the thread and follow it.

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reprint Dorter, Kenneth (1976) "The Phaedo's Final Argument". Canadian Journal of Philosophy 6(sup1):165-180

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Ken Dorter
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