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Phaedo

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Account of Socrates' last day, told by Phaedo of Elis to Echecrates at Phlius. Socrates talks with the Thebans Simmias and Cebes, who had frequented Pythagoreans, about why the philosopher does not fear death, and sets out four arguments for the immortality of the soul and a myth about the fate of souls. The dialogue closes with the death scene: the bath, the farewell to his family, the cup of poison and the last words to Crito about the cock owed to Asclepius (118a).

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Authorship note

A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him. Plato was not present (59b): the narrator is Phaedo of Elis. The proofs of the soul's immortality and the theory of Forms are, for most scholars, Platonic doctrine placed in Socrates' mouth.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Loeb Classical Library 36) — Socrates

    Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Loeb Classical Library 36)

    Harvard University Press, 2017

    Translation: Chris Emlyn-Jones y William Preddy

    ISBN 9780674996878

    Edición bilingüe griego-inglés.

  • The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo — Socrates

    The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo

    Penguin Classics, 2003

    Translation: Hugh Tredennick y Harold Tarrant

    ISBN 9780140449280

    Reeditada en 2010 con ISBN 9780140455496.

  • Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo — Socrates

    Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    Hackett Publishing, 2002

    Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper

    ISBN 9780872206335

    2.ª edición; registro de Open Library de 2005.

  • Phaedo

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

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Español

  • Fedón o del alma

    Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Tomo 5 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.

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  • Diálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro — Socrates

    Diálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 93), 2020

    Translation: C. García Gual, M. Martínez Hernández y E. Lledó Íñigo

    ISBN 9788424939274

    Reimpresión; primera edición en 1986.

Other works by Socrates

Sources

  • Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).

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