Immortality of the soul in the Phaedo

What is it about?

The paper draws a number of careful distinctions between different words for 'life' in Greek, and different meanings of "dead" and "death" in Plato's Phaedo, to show that Plato works towards a suggestion that the soul is outside time and is not something that experiences either living or dying in itself, but only insofar as it is engaged with a body that is subject to temporal extension and change.

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