# Phaedo

- Identifiant : `plato.phaedo`
- Auteur : Plato
- URL canonique : https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/phaedo/
- Empreinte : `a39e089f30f810ae6d1bdf005ea4f505cafcdd40573783101789246ece3d1d94`

## What you will learn

Distinguish arguments for immortality, follow Simmias’ and Cebes’ objections, and analyze relations among demonstration, myth, and death narrative.

## Summary

Socrates presents philosophy as preparation for death and develops several arguments: cyclical opposites, recollection, the soul’s affinity with intelligible reality, and formal causation of life. Simmias and Cebes raise objections requiring renewed proof.

An eschatological myth and the restrained account of execution close the day. The reported frame reminds readers that the scene is memorial composition. The arguments do not form one proof; their succession puts philosophical confidence to work before loss.