Dialogue

  1 Phaedo|        the separation of soul and body—and the philosopher desires
  2 Phaedo|  necessities of men come from the body. And death separates him
  3 Phaedo|         the soul upon leaving the body may vanish away like smoke
  4 Phaedo|            the soul commands, the body serves: in this respect
  5 Phaedo|       akin to the divine, and the body to the mortal. And in every
  6 Phaedo|          and immortality, and the body of the human and mortal.
  7 Phaedo|           mortal. And whereas the body is liable to speedy dissolution,
  8 Phaedo|        Compare Tim.) Yet even the body may be preserved for ages
  9 Phaedo|            holding aloof from the body, and practising death all
 10 Phaedo|     sepulchre, loath to leave the body which she loved, a ghostly
 11 Phaedo|        nails fastening her to the body. To that prison-house she
 12 Phaedo|          from the dominion of the body can she behold the light
 13 Phaedo|        immortal, and prior to the body. But is not the soul acknowledged
 14 Phaedo|          the same relation to the body, as the harmony—which like
 15 Phaedo|          is more lasting than the body. But the more lasting nature
 16 Phaedo|           her death, and her last body may survive her, just as
 17 Phaedo|          soul is a harmony of the body. But the admission of the
 18 Phaedo|   resisting the affections of the body, as Homer describes Odysseus ‘
 19 Phaedo|          soul is a harmony of the body? Nay rather, are we not
 20 Phaedo|     rejected the pleasures of the body, has reason to be of good
 21 Phaedo|    burying, not him, but his dead body. His friends had once been
 22 Phaedo|           when separated from the body? Or how can the soul be
 23 Phaedo|           soul be united with the body and still be independent?
 24 Phaedo|           the soul related to the body as the ideal to the real,
 25 Phaedo|       form of an organized living body? or with Plato, that she
 26 Phaedo|           the soul related to the body as sight to the eye, or
 27 Phaedo|      individual informing another body and entering into new relations,
 28 Phaedo|        the opposition of soul and body a mere illusion, and the
 29 Phaedo|        true self neither soul nor body, but the union of the two
 30 Phaedo|  boundaries of human thought? The body and the soul seem to be
 31 Phaedo|       respecting the relations of body and mind, and in this we
 32 Phaedo|    necessity of providing for the body will not interfere with
 33 Phaedo|         the soul upon leaving the body may ‘vanish into thin air,’
 34 Phaedo|          was single and the whole body seemed to be full of light;
 35 Phaedo|           the separation from the body which has been commenced
 36 Phaedo|        the separation of soul and body. If ideas were separable
 37 Phaedo|           soul which has left the body, with the soul of the good
 38 Phaedo|        the antithesis of soul and body. The soul in her own essence,
 39 Phaedo|        the separation of soul and body? And to be dead is the completion
 40 Phaedo|          and is released from the body and the body is released
 41 Phaedo|    released from the body and the body is released from the soul,
 42 Phaedo|       other ways of indulging the body, for example, the acquisition
 43 Phaedo|           other adornments of the body? Instead of caring about
 44 Phaedo|         the soul and not with the body? He would like, as far as
 45 Phaedo|         can, to get away from the body and to turn to the soul.~
 46 Phaedo|         from the communion of the body.~Very true.~Whereas, Simmias,
 47 Phaedo|  acquirement of knowledge?—is the body, if invited to share in
 48 Phaedo|      anything in company with the body she is obviously deceived.~
 49 Phaedo|       when she takes leave of the body, and has as little as possible
 50 Phaedo|        philosopher dishonours the body; his soul runs away from
 51 Phaedo|           soul runs away from his body and desires to be alone
 52 Phaedo|         so to speak, of the whole body, these being in his opinion
 53 Phaedo|          that while we are in the body, and while the soul is infected
 54 Phaedo|    infected with the evils of the body, our desire will not be
 55 Phaedo|          is of the truth. For the body is a source of endless trouble
 56 Phaedo|     factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?
 57 Phaedo|         body and the lusts of the body? wars are occasioned by
 58 Phaedo|         and in the service of the body; and by reason of all these
 59 Phaedo|          to some speculation, the body is always breaking in upon
 60 Phaedo|   anything we must be quit of the body—the soul in herself must
 61 Phaedo|         while in company with the body, the soul cannot have pure
 62 Phaedo|           will be parted from the body and exist in herself alone.
 63 Phaedo| intercourse or communion with the body, and are not surfeited with
 64 Phaedo|         of the foolishness of the body we shall be pure and hold
 65 Phaedo|   separation of the soul from the body, as I was saying before;
 66 Phaedo|         from all sides out of the body; the dwelling in her own
 67 Phaedo|       soul from the chains of the body?~Very true, he said.~And
 68 Phaedo|      release of the soul from the body is termed death?~To be sure,
 69 Phaedo|      release of the soul from the body their especial study?~That
 70 Phaedo|      every way the enemies of the body, and are wanting to be alone
 71 Phaedo|        wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same
 72 Phaedo|        those only who despise the body, and who pass their lives
 73 Phaedo|        that when she has left the body her place may be nowhere,
 74 Phaedo|           on her release from the body, issuing forth dispersed
 75 Phaedo|         before entering the human body, why after having entered
 76 Phaedo|          when the soul leaves the body, the wind may really blow
 77 Phaedo|    further, is not one part of us body, another part soul?~To be
 78 Phaedo|         And to which class is the body more alike and akin?~Clearly
 79 Phaedo|       like to the unseen, and the body to the seen?~That follows
 80 Phaedo|           the soul when using the body as an instrument of perception,
 81 Phaedo|         of perceiving through the body is perceiving through the
 82 Phaedo|        too is then dragged by the body into the region of the changeable,
 83 Phaedo|       will not deny that.~And the body is more like the changing?~
 84 Phaedo|      light: When the soul and the body are united, then nature
 85 Phaedo|          rule and govern, and the body to obey and serve. Now which
 86 Phaedo|     resembles the divine, and the body the mortal—there can be
 87 Phaedo|        unchangeable; and that the body is in the very likeness
 88 Phaedo|          be true, then is not the body liable to speedy dissolution?
 89 Phaedo|          after a man is dead, the body, or visible part of him,
 90 Phaedo|          year favourable? For the body when shrunk and embalmed,
 91 Phaedo|       immediately on quitting the body, as the many say? That can
 92 Phaedo|           had connection with the body, which she is ever avoiding,
 93 Phaedo|      companion and servant of the body always, and is in love with
 94 Phaedo|        with and fascinated by the body and by the desires and pleasures
 95 Phaedo|      desires and pleasures of the body, until she is led to believe
 96 Phaedo|          and constant care of the body have wrought into her nature.~
 97 Phaedo|      grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov’d, And linked
 98 Phaedo|     imprisoned finally in another body. And they may be supposed
 99 Phaedo|       moulding and fashioning the body, say farewell to all this;
100 Phaedo|         fastened and glued to the body—until philosophy received
101 Phaedo|         is most enthralled by the body?~How so?~Why, because each
102 Phaedo|        and rivets the soul to the body, until she becomes like
103 Phaedo|        until she becomes like the body, and believes that to be
104 Phaedo|         that to be true which the body affirms to be true; and
105 Phaedo|        and from agreeing with the body and having the same delights
106 Phaedo|         is always infected by the body; and so she sinks into another
107 Phaedo|         so she sinks into another body and there germinates and
108 Phaedo|         at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away
109 Phaedo|           soul; and that when the body is in a manner strung and
110 Phaedo|       whenever the strings of the body are unduly loosened or overstrained
111 Phaedo|           material remains of the body may last for a considerable
112 Phaedo|    harmony of the elements of the body, is first to perish in that
113 Phaedo|         and more lasting than the body, being of opinion that in
114 Phaedo|          soul very far excels the body. Well, then, says the argument
115 Phaedo|           Now the relation of the body to the soul may be expressed
116 Phaedo|          soul is lasting, and the body weak and shortlived in comparison.
117 Phaedo|      years. While he is alive the body deliquesces and decays,
118 Phaedo|        when the soul is dead, the body will show its native weakness,
119 Phaedo|      death and dissolution of the body which brings destruction
120 Phaedo|      reason to fear that when the body is disunited, the soul also
121 Phaedo|        and diviner thing than the body, being as she is in the
122 Phaedo|         was more lasting than the body, but he said that no one
123 Phaedo|        herself and leave her last body behind her; and that this
124 Phaedo|        the destruction not of the body but of the soul, for in
125 Phaedo|           of the soul, for in the body the work of destruction
126 Phaedo|           she was enclosed in the body?~Cebes said that he had
127 Phaedo|           set in the frame of the body; for you will surely never
128 Phaedo|      before she took the form and body of man, and was made up
129 Phaedo|          before she came into the body, because to her belongs
130 Phaedo|        with the affections of the body? or is she at variance with
131 Phaedo|       them? For example, when the body is hot and thirsty, does
132 Phaedo|    against drinking? and when the body is hungry, against eating?
133 Phaedo|         soul to the things of the body.~Very true.~But we have
134 Phaedo|          by the affections of the body, and not rather of a nature
135 Phaedo|          the soul enters into the body once only or many times,
136 Phaedo|        that I sit here because my body is made up of bones and
137 Phaedo|        and the other parts of the body I cannot execute my purposes.
138 Phaedo|           the inherence makes the body hot,’ you will reply not
139 Phaedo|           any one asks you ‘why a body is diseased,’ you will not
140 Phaedo|         inherence will render the body alive?~The soul, he replied.~
141 Phaedo|    happily quit not only of their body, but of their own evil together
142 Phaedo|        the soul which desires the body, and which, as I was relating
143 Phaedo|         that the earth is a round body in the centre of the heavens,
144 Phaedo| henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer still
145 Phaedo|    pleasures and ornaments of the body as alien to him and working
146 Phaedo|         the trouble of washing my body after I am dead.~When he
147 Phaedo|          he will soon see, a dead body—and he asks, How shall he
148 Phaedo|           grieved when he sees my body being burned or buried.
149 Phaedo|           that you are burying my body only, and do with that whatever