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Single Idea 370

[filed under theme 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.382 BCE], 114b)

Book Ref

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?