Q0007

Plato

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English

Let us not become haters of argument — that is a great danger to the soul.
Thinker Plato
School Platonism
Source Phaedo 89d
Theme Reason
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Phaedo 89d, within the tradition of Platonism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of reason, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Plato's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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  2. Therefore death is nothing to us, and does not concern us at all.
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  5. I think, therefore I am.

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