A Note on Plato's “Cyclical Argument” in the Phaedo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7746871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Wolfe (Brock University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-238 |
| Publication date | 1966-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300037707 |
| OpenAlex | W2129365122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The so-called ‘cyclical argument’ for immortality in the Phaedo represents an endeavour to give philosophical respectability to the ancient religious doctrine of the cycle or wheel of rebirth. According to this, the soul is reincarnated after the death of its body and a short period in the ‘other world’ in a purely disembodied state. Socrates sets himself the task of proving that a soul animating a new body must previously have animated another body whose death antedates the life of the new body
Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Doctrine · Epistemology · Immortality · Literature · Physical body · SOCRATES · Soul · State (computer science) · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 1969 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |