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标题：THE LOGIC OF IMMORTALITY: PLATO'S PHAEDO AND THE ARGUMENT FROM AFFINITY
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作者：Andrew M. Bailey
期刊名称：Minerva : an Internet Journal of Philosophy
印刷版ISSN：1393-614X
出版年度：2005
卷号：9
页码：32-52
出版社：University of Limerick
摘要：In this paper, I offer an analysis of the Argument from Affinity in Plato's Phaedo. I will proceed by first outlining the basic project of Phaedo, showing the broader context of the Argument from Affinity. Second, I will offer two competing formulations of the Argument from Affinity, and suggest various textual clues in support of both. The more plausible of these formulations will turn out to be circular in nature. I will then show how this broad circularity is consistent with a general Platonic framework and is best seen as intentional. That the Argument from Affinity begs the question (is circular) may suggest, in fact, that it is a logical image of one central theme in the dialogue: the cyclical and circular nature of life and death