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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ferber, Rafael

Titel

Second Sailing towards Immortality and God: On Plato’s Phaedo 99e4-100a3, with an Outlook on Descartes’ Meditations, AT VII, 67

Ist Teil von

• Mnemosyne, 2021-05, Vol.74 (3), p.371-400

Ort / Verlag

Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This paper deals with the deuteros plous , literally ‘the second voyage’, proverbially ‘the next best way’, discussed in Plato’s Phaedo , the key passage being Phd . 99e4-100a3. I argue that (a) the ‘flight into the logoi ’ can have two different interpretations, a standard one and a non-standard one. The issue is whether at 99e-100a Socrates means that both the student of erga and the student of logoi consider images (‘the standard interpretation’), or the student of logoi does not consider images (‘the non-standard interpretation’); (b) the non-standard one implies the problem of the hypothesis, a problem analogous to the problem of the elenchus; (c) there is a structural analogy between Descartes’ ontological argument for the existence of God in his 5th Meditation and the final proof for the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo .