Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Aristotelian Ideal of Consciousness
Socirates had the reputation for being able to drink more than anybody else without getting drunk. The word, in my translation, gets used as purification. This is self denial. A kind of contemplative life is important for its own sake and is the highest good. Write such a man's concerns instead, directed toward the soul.
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