Bonus:
It's a playbook!
Summary: Blah blah Socrates blah blah.
Commentary: So, as I've established however many times, these dialogues suck. The writing is clunky, the arguments are lazy, the construction is awkward. I'm probably going to just DNF Phaedo and I doubt I'll get very far on the others.
But, I think I know the reason why. Plato is trying to write a play. He's doing a terrible job (why would you have a play where one character talks as other characters for 20 minutes?) but that's why they suck. Beyond that, the philosophy is still more "vaguely claimed thesis with no evidence" that's not really worth commenting on, since I'd just be copying the same "prove it" every 5 lines.
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