Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Then the soul is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen?”
- Source
- Phaedo
- Date
- c. 4th century BCE
- Local voice
- Dialogue speaker · Socrates
- English wording
- Benjamin Jowett — Translator · from Ancient Greek
Meaning of “Then the soul is more like to the…”
Within the dialogue’s metaphysical argument, Socrates associates soul with the unseen and body with the visible; the record preserves that historical philosophical context rather than treating it as established fact.
Where does it come from?
Phaedo, Benjamin Jowett translation; Socrates is reasoning with Cebes about visibility, mortality and the proposed nature of soul and body.
Why the local voice matters
Socrates reasons with Cebes in Phaedo.
