Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|         former and not a future existence. Socrates answers this objection
 2 Phaedo|        that he who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas
 3 Phaedo|         actual effects.’~If the existence of ideas is granted to him,
 4 Phaedo|  infinity, hardly possessing an existence which she can call her own,
 5 Phaedo|     allied to the Author of all existence, who is because he is perfect,
 6 Phaedo|      mind. We may argue for the existence of animals in a future state
 7 Phaedo|    beings in another, still the existence of the very least evil if
 8 Phaedo|        such a doctrine with the existence of a God—also in a less
 9 Phaedo|    doubting about the continued existence of those whom we love and
10 Phaedo|       then infinite time, or an existence out of time, which are the
11 Phaedo|    nature. The mere fact of the existence of God does not tend to
12 Phaedo|      tend to show the continued existence of man. An evil God or an
13 Phaedo|       urged about the origin or existence of evil are mere dialectical
14 Phaedo|  spectators of all time and all existence,’ and of framing in our
15 Phaedo|       past and future states of existence. His language may be compared
16 Phaedo|    isles of the blest; or of an existence divided between the two;
17 Phaedo| constantly assume the continued existence of the dead in an upper
18 Phaedo|         with the reality of his existence. For the distinction between
19 Phaedo|        as the argument from the existence of God to immortality among
20 Phaedo|    there is no God, there is no existence of the soul after death.’
21 Phaedo|       strongly persuaded of the existence of ideas than they are of
22 Phaedo|         are more certain of the existence of God than we are of the
23 Phaedo|        right than we are of the existence of God, and are led on in
24 Phaedo|         Or more correctly: ‘The existence of right and truth is the
25 Phaedo|       of right and truth is the existence of God, and can never for
26 Phaedo|      Phaedo is derived from the existence of eternal ideas of which
27 Phaedo|  necessarily involve the future existence of the soul, as is shown
28 Phaedo|        True.~Then must not true existence be revealed to her in thought,
29 Phaedo|        souls of the dead are in existence, and that the good souls
30 Phaedo|     souls must have had a prior existence, but if not, there would
31 Phaedo|        to the position that the existence of the soul before birth
32 Phaedo|    cannot be separated from the existence of the essence of which
33 Phaedo|        a most real and absolute existence; and I am satisfied with
34 Phaedo|   sufficiently convinced of the existence of the soul before birth.
35 Phaedo|      other elements, and was in existence before entering the human
36 Phaedo|       define as essence or true existence—whether essence of equality,
37 Phaedo|        she could only view real existence through the bars of a prison,
38 Phaedo|       pure apprehension of pure existence, and to mistrust whatever
39 Phaedo|         ready to admit that the existence of the soul before entering
40 Phaedo|    sufficiently proven; but the existence of the soul after death
41 Phaedo|         the weaker continues in existence after the man is dead, will
42 Phaedo| strength to prove the continued existence of the soul after death.
43 Phaedo|    elements which as yet had no existence? For harmony is not like
44 Phaedo|     which the very name implies existence. Having, as I am convinced,
45 Phaedo|         of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men,
46 Phaedo|    generation or destruction or existence of anything, he must find
47 Phaedo|        teacher of the causes of existence such as I desired, and I
48 Phaedo|       the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that
49 Phaedo|         seek there the truth of existence. I dare say that the simile
50 Phaedo|       which anything comes into existence except by participation
51 Phaedo|         wanted to discover real existence. Not that this confusion