Abstract
Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.
At a turning point in the Phaedo (95e) Socrates says that the objections of his interlocutor, Cebes, call for a thorough inquiry into the reason (aitia) for coming-to-be (genesis) and destruction (phthora.) In this paper I wish to explore some philosophical antecedents of this inquiry, with a view to clarifying its significance in the Phaedo context, and ventilating it as a conceptual issue in its own right.
Recommended Citation
Gallop, David
(1982)
"Birth and Death in Parmenides and Plato,"
University of Dayton Review: Vol. 16:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/udr/vol16/iss1/7
