
PREMIUM-Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Problem of Permanence in the Face of Change
Theory of recollection is only out these eternal matters of principle, so that when we are questioned about the pythagorean theorem, he's able to deduce. It's a way to solve the problem of being versus becoming. The body is living and dying, but the soul is persisting the whole time. So you are characterizing west that this dialogue is not really about immortality. It's an excuse to talk about things like this thit's the theory of recollection and the theory of forms. But maybe i'm wrong about tham. I don't think recollection is in the meno described explicitly in terms of the theory of Forms. This is the first dialogue to talk about
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