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Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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What Happens to the Soul After Death?

On a surface level, it's framed as a dialogue about what happens after death. Each of those arguments will present some sort of epistemological or ontological view. Essentially, those views are put and service of the immortality of the soul. And then there's the myth at the end, and how those are functioning in terms of what kind of teaching about the philosophical life is being implied there.

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