Phædo or Phaedo (/ˈfiːdoʊ/; Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn [pʰaídɔːn]), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's...

Phaedo of Elis (/ˈfiːdoʊ/; also, Phaedon; Greek: Φαίδων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, gen.: Φαίδωνος; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek philosopher. A native of Elis, he was...

this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. In this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens...

Plato develops the theory of anamnesis in his Socratic dialogues: Meno, Phaedo, and Phaedrus. In Meno, Plato's character (and old teacher) Socrates is...

original texts related to this article: Euthyphro Apology (Plato) Crito Phaedo The extant, primary sources about the history of the trial and execution...

ancient Greek name that may refer to: Phaedo of Elis, philosopher Phaedo, one of Plato's dialogues named after Phaedo of Elis who appears in it Phaidon Press...

the trial, and is one of four Socratic dialogues, along with Euthyphro, Phaedo, and Crito, through which Plato details the final days of the philosopher...

dialogues Phaedo, Republic and Phaedrus, poetic language to illustrate the mode in which the Forms are said to exist. Near the end of the Phaedo, for example...

philosophy was originally the School of Elis, where it had been founded by Phaedo of Elis; it was later transferred to Eretria by his pupil Menedemus. It...

interested in natural philosophy, which conforms to Plato's depiction of him in Phaedo. What is certain is that by the age of 45, Socrates had already captured...