Plato's Phaedo: A Guide

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo, as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato's metaphysics as revealed by the four major arguments it contains. Offering a concise discussion of Platonic forms—the abstract objects Plato famously proposed—Bailey argues that Plato was thinking carefully about names and naming throughout the construction of the Phaedo. Readers of the Sy...