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?