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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
.