CONTENTS.
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Grote, George
The soul always brings life, and is essentially living. It cannot receive death: in other words, it is immortal
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The proof of immortality includes pre-existence as well as post-existence — animals as well as man — also the metempsychosis or translation of the soul from one body to another
414
After finishing his proof that the soul is immortal, Sokrates enters into a description, what will become of it after the death of the body. He describes a Νεκυία
415
Sokrates expects that his soul is going to the islands of the blest. Reply to Kriton about burying his body
416
Preparations for administering the hemlock. Sympathy of the gaoler. Equanimity of Sokrates
ib.
Sokrates swallows the poison. Conversation with the gaoler
417
Ungovernable sorrow of the friends present. Self-command of Sokrates. Last words to Kriton, and death
ib.
Extreme pathos, and probable trustworthiness of these personal details
419
Contrast between the Platonic Apology and the Phædon
ib.
Abundant dogmatic and poetical invention of the Phædon compared with the profession of ignorance which we read in the Apology
421
Total renunciation and discredit of the body in the Phædon. Different feeling about the body in other Platonic dialogues
422
Plato’s argument does not prove the immortality of the soul. Even if it did prove that, yet the mode of pre-existence and the mode of post-existence, of the soul, would be quite undetermined
423
The philosopher will enjoy an existence of pure soul unattached to any body
425
Plato’s demonstration of the immortality of the soul did not appear satisfactory to subsequent philosophers. The question remained debated and problematical
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