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Phaedo
Φαίδων
Phaedo of Elis tells Echecrates of Socrates' last hours in prison: the conversation on why the philosopher does not fear death, the arguments for the immortality of the soul (from opposites, recollection, affinity with the invisible, participation in Forms), the closing myth on the fate of souls, and the calm death by hemlock. Here the theory of Forms appears explicitly, as does the definition of philosophy as practice for dying. Plato is said to have been absent through illness (59b).
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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.
Editions and translations
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English
Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 2017
Translation: Chris Emlyn-Jones y William Preddy
ISBN 9780674996878
Loeb Classical Library 36, nueva edición bilingüe
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo
Hackett, 2005
Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper
ISBN 9780872206335
The Last Days of Socrates
Penguin Classics, 2003
Translation: Hugh Tredennick y Harold Tarrant
ISBN 9780140449280
Plato: Complete Works
Hackett, 1997
Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)
ISBN 0872203492
Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas
Plato
Phaedo
The Conscious LibraryPhaedo
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 1; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Fedón o del alma
The Conscious LibraryFedón o del alma
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 5; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro
Gredos, 1998
ISBN 9788424910365
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 93
Fedón
Gredos, 2014
ISBN 9788424928148
Fedón. Fedro
Alianza Editorial, 2016
ISBN 9788491042822
Other works by Plato
- Euthyphro · 395
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Cratylus · 385
- Theaetetus · 368
- Sophist · 360
- Statesman · 360
- Parmenides · 370
- Philebus · 355
- Symposium · 380
- Phaedrus · 370
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Hipparchus
- Rival Lovers (Lovers)
- Theages
- Charmides · 390
- Laches · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Euthydemus · 385
- Protagoras · 390
- Gorgias · 387
- Meno · 385
- Hippias Major · 390
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (to Dionysius II)
- Letter II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- Letter IV (to Dion) · 357
- Letter V (to Perdiccas III of Macedon)
- Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)
- Letter VII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter VIII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter IX (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter X (to Aristodorus)
- Letter XI (to Laodamas)
- Letter XII (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter XIII (to Dionysius II)
- Definitions
- On Justice
- On Virtue
- Demodocus
- Sisyphus
- Halcyon
- Eryxias
- Axiochus
- Epigrams
Sources
- Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).
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