Single Idea 370

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent]

Full Idea

Souls which have purified themselves sufficiently by philosophy will live after death without bodies.

Gist of Idea

Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife

Source

Plato (Phaedo [c.374 BCE], 114b)

Book Reference

Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.178


A Reaction

Purifying it of what? Error, or desire, or narrow-mindedness, or the physical?