The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance

Marina Marren; Kevin C. Marren

doi:10.3390/philosophies9030089

The Mythological Aspect of Plato’s Phaedo as Disclosing the Soul’s Ontological Significance

Marina Marren, Kevin C. Marren

Department of Cognitive Sciences

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This essay offers an interpretation of Plato’s Phaedo, which proceeds in two parts: (1) methodological interpretation of myth and (2) application of the method to the analysis of the soul. The paper claims that the myths in this dialogue are not limited to the explicitly mythical sections but that the entirety of the Phaedo—including the arguments that it presents—is saturated with myth. Through this interpretive lens, the soul, as it appears in the Phaedo, ceases to be characterized as a mere thing and gains an ontological dimension.

Original language	English
Article number	89
Journal	Philosophies
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9030089
Publication status	Published - Jun 2024

Keywords

Earth itself
Hades
Minotaur
Theseus
logoi
muthoi
space
time

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Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Science

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