Gplatwnos@ Faidwn. the Phaedo of Plato, Ed. with Intr. Notes and Appendices by R.D. Archer-Hind - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...acquainted with the laws of nature and the conditions of their interaction to be perfectly sure how they will work in every particular case. So we are still haunted by the doubt that a soul may, under certain circumstances, be dissipated and destroyed: this doubt can only be satisfied by proving that the eternity of soul can be deduced not only from a universal law but from her own inherent nature. Next avaiwrim has placed the eternity of soul on the same footing of assurance as the existence of the ideas: but this is done indirectly; we desire to be convinced that soul not only has had cognition of the ideas, but that she possesses such an affinity with their nature as will justify us in believing that she shares their attribute of eternity; see introduction 2. 4. Siao-KcSdvwa-iv Hirschig would read StacrKeSamvy. But here the indicative is clearly right. What we fear is, not lest c: BD omit av. Z. and St. give av ei5KcupoTepov with E. 78 B--80 E, cc. xxv--xxix. The question is then, what kind of things are liable to dissolution and what are not? and to which class does soul belong? That which is composite and consists of parts may doubtless be resolved again into parts; but if we can discover something which is incomposite and without parts we may safely affirm that this, if anything, is indissoluble. To the class of incomposites we should assign whatever is constant and changeless; to that of composites all that is ever-changing. Now this is precisely what constitutes the difference between the contents of the ideal and of the phenomenal world respectively: the ideas are changeless, simple, apprehensible by pure intelligence; phenomena are ever-changing, manifold, apprehensible by mere sensation. Let us term the former the...
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