"Nothing is more absurd than a philosopher who fears death"

Mendelssohn's Phaedo, Dialogue 1

Hello friends,

In one of our recent MOFI sessions, we examined Plato’s Phaedo, a dialogue about the immortality of the soul that itself has survived thousands of years to reach our time. Most if not all of the original copies of that text have been lost in the mists of time, but it has been reproduced numerous times, enabling the “soul” of the Phaedo to …