Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|           nature or grounds of their belief. They do not like to acknowledge
 2 Phaedo|     customary rather than a reasoned belief in the immortality of the
 3 Phaedo|              the necessity of such a belief to morality and the order
 4 Phaedo|              is doubtful whether the belief which in the first ages
 5 Phaedo|             again to become a living belief. We must ask ourselves afresh
 6 Phaedo|           been content to rest their belief in another life on the agreement
 7 Phaedo|          affect the substance of our belief.~8. Another life must be
 8 Phaedo|               The last ground of our belief in immortality, and the
 9 Phaedo|              he himself is.~Thus the belief in the immortality of the
10 Phaedo|            soul rests at last on the belief in God. If there is a good
11 Phaedo|             there are degrees of the belief in immortality, and many
12 Phaedo|             others again to whom the belief in a divine personality
13 Phaedo|          begin again and acquire the belief for ourselves; or to win
14 Phaedo|            has tended towards such a belief—we have reason to think
15 Phaedo|           grounds. The denial of the belief takes the heart out of human
16 Phaedo|             in this world who has no belief in another.’~13. It is well
17 Phaedo|            foundation in the popular belief. The old Homeric notion
18 Phaedo|            were added to the popular belief. The individual must find
19 Phaedo|           are the same.’ The Eastern belief in transmigration defined
20 Phaedo|   under-world.~16. Yet after all the belief in the individuality of
21 Phaedo|              a clearer denial of the belief in modern times than is
22 Phaedo|             Plato naturally cast his belief in immortality into a logical
23 Phaedo|             soul, and are led by the belief in the one to a belief in
24 Phaedo|           the belief in the one to a belief in the other. The parallel,
25 Phaedo| accommodating himself to the popular belief. Such a view can only be
26 Phaedo|              compare Crito), he wins belief for his fictions by the
27 Phaedo|    completely developed. Whether the belief in immortality can be attributed
28 Phaedo|              is based on the ancient belief in transmigration, which
29 Phaedo|        rooted in Plato’s mind is the belief in immortality; so various
30 Phaedo|        reconcile this seemingly true belief that God is our guardian
31 Phaedo|           the other world—such is my belief. And therefore I maintain
32 Phaedo|             there were no grounds of belief.~ECHECRATES: There I feel