phaedo in A Sentence

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    Extracts from Socrates' Phaedo are given; also the views of Plato as stated by Johannes Grammaticus, pp. 65- 67.

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    In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates, who is not long to die, tells the philosophers Simmias and Cebes that absolute justice, absolute beauty, or absolute good cannot be apprehended with the eyes or any other bodily organ, but only by the mind or soul.

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    Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the"absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his time in prison turning some of Aesop's fables"which he knew" into verses.

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