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Ideas for 'Phaedo', 'Academica' and 'Gravity and Grace (9 extracts)'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

370	Philosophy is a purification of the soul ready for the afterlife [Plato]
	Full Idea: Souls which have purified themselves sufficiently by philosophy will live after death without bodies.
	From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 114b)
	A reaction: Purifying it of what? Error, or desire, or narrow-mindedness, or the physical?