It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

* Plato, Phaedo ( link )

Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus.

In the Phaedo, Plato argues that true explanations for any given physical phenomenon must be teleological.

The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to Plato, is of a story within a story within a story.

The Timaeus of Plato in the Latin version of Chalcidius was known to him as to his contemporaries and predecessors, and probably he had access to translations of the Phaedo and Meno.

In the dialogue Phaedo, Plato formulated his famous Theory of Forms as distinct and immaterial substances of which the objects and other phenomena that we perceive in the world are nothing more than mere shadows.

Plato makes it clear, in the Phaedo, that the Forms are the universalia ante res, i. e. they are ideal universals, by which we are able to understand the world.

Plato's portrayal of Xanthippe in the Phaedo suggests that she was nothing less than a devoted wife and mother ; she is mentioned nowhere else in Plato.

They tend to agree also that Plato ’ s earliest works quite faithfully represent the teachings of Socrates and that Plato ’ s own views, which go beyond those of Socrates, appear for the first time in the middle works such as the Phaedo and the Republic.

Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the " absurdities " of Aesop from conversation at banquets ; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables " which he knew " into verses.

He is one of the speakers in the Phaedo of Plato, in which he is represented as an earnest seeker after virtue and truth, keen in argument and cautious in decision.

He seemed insulting to Xenophon and Plato, as seen from the Memorabilia, where he maintains a discussion against Socrates in defence of voluptuous enjoyment, and from the Phaedo, where his absence at the death of Socrates, though he was only at Aegina, 200 stadia from Athens, is doubtless mentioned as a reproach.

He is about to kill himself while reading the Phaedo, a dialogue of Plato which details the death of Socrates.

The belief that God sends a spirit to watch every individual was common in Ancient Greek philosophy, and was alluded to by Plato in Phaedo, 108.

* Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

Plato described Socrates ' death in the Phaedo:

** The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato

He denied that the soul was immortal, and attacked the ' proofs ' put forward by Plato in his Phaedo.

In addition to Plato and Xenophon, Antisthenes, Aeschines of Sphettos, Phaedo of Elis, Euclid of Megara, Simon the Shoemaker, Theocritus, Tissaphernes and Aristotle all wrote Socratic dialogues, and Cicero wrote similar dialogues in Latin on philosophical and rhetorical themes, for example De re publica.

Later Plato in the Phaedo will articulate the principle clearly: " Everything arises in this way, opposites from their opposites.

* Plato, Phaedo, Plato.

Further, the Sophist – Statesman – Philosopher family makes particularly good sense in this order, as Schleiermacher also maintains that the two dialogues, Symposium and Phaedo show Socrates as the quintessential philosopher in life ( guided by Diotima ) and into death, the realm of otherness.

In Plato's Phaedo, Socrates defines the misanthrope in relation to his fellow man: " Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable ... and when it happens to someone often ... he ends up ... hating everyone.

For example ( given in Phaedo 98 ), if Socrates is sitting in an Athenian prison, the elasticity of his tendons is what allows him to be sitting, and so a physical description of his tendons can be listed as necessary conditions or auxiliary causes of his act of sitting ( Phaedo 99b ; Timaeus 46c9-d4, 69e6 ).

The Aristophanic Socrates is much more interested in physical speculations than is Plato's Socrates yet it is possible that the real Socrates did take a strong interest in such speculations during his development as a philosopher and there is some support for this in Plato's dialogue Phaedo 96A.

Plato's Phaedo records Socrates saying that, although swans sing in early life, they do not do so as beautifully as before they die.

** Bundled with Socrates ' Defense ( aka Apology ), Crito and the death scene from Phaedo

** Bundled with Euthyphro, Socrates ' Defense ( aka Apology ) and the death scene from Phaedo

Socrates, in Phaedo referred to the portion of the world he knew of as between the Pillars of Hercules and the River Phasis, while Herodotus considered Rioni as a boundary between Europe and Asia

The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, following Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito.

The dialogue is told from the perspective of one of Socrates ' students, Phaedo of Elis.

Having been present at Socrates ' death bed, Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates, a Pythagorean philosopher.

Phaedo tells the story that following the discussion, he and the others were there to witness the death of Socrates.

Another account of the theory is found in Plato's Meno, although in that case Socrates implies anamnesis ( previous knowledge of everything ) whereas he is not so bold in Phaedo.

** Bundled with Euthyphro, Crito and the death scene from Phaedo

Phaedo explains why a delay occurred between his trial and his death, and describes the scene in a prison at Athens on the final day, naming those present.

Socrates tells Phaedo to " bid him ( his friend ) farewell from me ; say that I would have him come after me if he be a wise man " Simmias expresses confusion as to why they ought hasten to follow Socrates to death.

Such single vocalist performances diminish however the effect of dialogue ( at least in the two first parts of the symphonic drama-in the third part there is only Phaedo telling the story of Socrates ' death ).

It is probable that Hermogenes had indeed witnessed the trial: although Plato's Apology does not mention his presence, his Phaedo lists Hermogenes among those who were present at Socrates ' death.

Plato's Phaedo contains similar imagery to that of the Allegory of the Cave ; a philosopher recognizes that before philosophy, his soul was " a veritable prisoner fast bound within his body ... and that instead of investigating reality by itself and in itself it is compelled to peer through the bars of its prison ".

# Transitional works, culminating in two so-called families of dialogues, the first consisting of Sophist, Statesman and Symposium, and the second of Phaedo and Philebus ; and finally

Plato's Phaedo ( or ;, Phaidon, gen .: Φαίδωνος ) is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium.

; Phaedo: As [...] Socrates lay in prison [...] we had been in the habit of assembling early in the morning at the court in which the trial took place, and which is not far from the prison.

He stroked my head, and pressed the hair upon my neck -- he had a way of playing with my hair ; and then he said: " To-morrow, Phaedo, I suppose that these fair locks of yours will be severed.

He was the author of An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric ( 1867 ), a standard work ; The Rhetoric of Aristotle, with a commentary, revised and edited by JE Sandys ( 1877 ); translations of Plato's Gorgias ( 2nd ed., 1884 ) and Phaedo ( revised by H Jackson, 1875 ).

# the earliest, marked chiefly by the poetical and dramatic element, i. e. Protagoras, Phaedrus, Gorgias, Phaedo ;

He is also mentioned in passing by Plutarch and Synesius ; and another pupil of Socrates, Phaedo of Elis, is known to have written a dialogue called Simon.

Complexion, in its original sense, engaged the attention of philosophers and musical theorists from ancient times right through to the Renaissance and beyond, in relation to the most favourable balancing of the ' qualities ' or elements in order to heal and invigorate the soul: from Pythagoras and the musical theorist Aristoxenus, through Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Aristotle, Saint Augustine in his thesis on music, and Aquinas ; and in the Florentine Renaissance, Marsilio Ficino in his work on the immortality of the soul, the Theologia Platonica.