Plato’s Phaedo It all starts when Echecrates asks Phaedo to tell him how was the last day of the life of Socrates and Phaedo agrees to do so. He starts by saying that Socrates, Apollodorus, Simmias, Cebes, Crito, and the own Phaedo were there. The whole argument of their dialogue is about the soul, whether the soul was before the body or the body was before the soul. Socrates says that pleasure and pains are very united, although they never happen at the same time, but that one is followed by the other. Knowing the Socrates will die, Cebes argues that the sensible are people who must feel anger because they are about to die and the foolish should feel joy. Socrates says that he has “good hopes that there is yet something remaining for the
