
Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is This the Same Person Who Wrote the Timaeus?
Ton: I found the reading tortuous and just hellish, because i thought we were reading philosophy. After timaeus, it was a pleasant surprise. Post modernism isn't very fascinated with the after life, i guess. It's not one of those dialogues that gets referred to often in the kind of contemporary continental line that i was studying. N sometimes you have those weird readings, like, heydeger or deridar, whoever's reading that'ill make reference to plato. And since i wasn't in no class a sistor, it's not something that came up. Wrote a song called, i saw socrates dancing. Well, maybe i'll break
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