Gerald Bivens

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practicing philosophy

If it [ψυχη] is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with the body in life, but avoided it and gathered itself together by itself and always practiced this, which is no other than practicing philosophy in the right way, in fact, training to die easily.1

Notes

  1. Plato, Phaedo (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), 80e-81a