Definitions for Phaedo

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Phaedo Phae·do

Spelling: [fee-doh]

IPA: /ˈfi doʊ/

Phaedo is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in Phaedo (adehop).

Definitions for Phaedo

noun

1. a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.

Examples for Phaedo

There are no means of determining the relative order in time of the Phaedrus, Symposium, Phaedo.

They are not more certain than facts, but they are equally certain (Phaedo).

The Phaedo also presents some points of comparison with the Symposium.

But in the Phaedo the doctrine of ideas is subordinate to the proof of the immortality of the soul.

For in the Phaedo the earth is described as the centre of the world, and is not said to be in motion.

The local arrangement of the vision is less distinct than that of the Phaedrus and Phaedo.

In the Phaedo, as in the Meno, the origin of ideas is sought for in a previous state of existence.

And yet Simmias is not really great and also small, but only when compared to Phaedo and Socrates.

The proof is very slight, even slighter than in the Phaedo and Republic.

The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life.