In this work, after being torn away from composing poems on the stories of Aesop, which he claims is in obedience to a dream, Socrates comments on how his initial enthusiasm for Anaxagoras cooled.
In this work, after being torn away from composing poems on the stories of Aesop, which he claims is in obedience to a dream, Socrates comments on how his initial enthusiasm for Anaxagoras cooled. He then re-explains the Theory of Recollection he had at one time elaborated with Meno and goes on at length about the theory of forms. Following that, he makes use of this and the theory of Opposites to demonstrate the logic behind his cheerfulness to his friends Simmias and Cebes, elaborating his theory of the immortality of the soul. FTP, name this dialogue narrated to Echecrates in which the title character, a witness even though Plato himself was not, describes Socrates's last conversation and subsequent death by hemlock.
In this work, after being torn away from composing poems on the stories of Aesop, which he claims is in obedience to a dream, Socrates comments on how his initial enthusiasm for Anaxagoras cooled.
{Phaedo}