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Phaedo

Phaedo

Plato · 385 BC

3 chapters · 63 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

The Opening and the Argument from Opposites

~34 min · 15 pages

Recollection, Affinity, and the Objections of Simmias and Cebes

~52 min · 24 pages

The Final Argument, the Myth of the Afterlife, and the Death of Socrates

~50 min · 24 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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