PLATO'S PHAEDO

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

{ 1 } - One is a philosopher.

See 68b: Socrates: "any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honours, either or both."

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

See 68b: Socrates: "any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honours, either or both."

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

Pleasure and pain belong to the body, which the man who fears death loves.

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

On the contrary, see 68b: Socrates: "any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honours, either or both."

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For Socrates, one's fear of death indicates that:

The courageous man drives out fear with wisdom. See 69a: Socrates: "My good Simmias, I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains, and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom."

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