Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo

This study of Plato''s Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul''s immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis. Unlike the argument for the soul''s immortality in the Phaedrus, which does seem intended as a proof, the Phaedo arguments are proceeding toward the ...