Characterise and assess Plato's theory of forms/essences in the first half of the Phaedo (up to 95e).
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Plato's Tomb EAGLE! Why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-ypaven home Floatest thou? - I am the image of swift Plato's spirit, Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit His corpse below.
P. B. Shelley. (1) Plato's Phaedo is a work that stands proud amongst the great works of Greek literature. The serenity of Socrates as he spends his last few hours before he drinks the hemlock is admirable. The theme of friendship is …
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…Great Western Thinkers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hospers, John. An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, 4th ed. London: Routledge, 2000. Natorp, Paul. Plato's Theory of Ideas. Dublin: Academia Verlag, 2003. (Politis, V. ed.). Plato. Phaedo. London: Cambridge University Press, 1955. (Trans. Hackforth, R). Politis, Vasilis. Aristotle and the Metaphysics. London: Routledge, 2004. Russell, Bertrand. History of Western Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2000. ________. The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
