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Phaedo is a book of literary fiction by Ancient Greek author Plato who lived between 423 ? 348 BC. This edition features the English translation by Benjamin Jowett, first published in 1873 in the UK.A celebrated ancient philosophy classic, exploring the immortality of the soul via a dialogue, told from the perspective of Phaedo of Elis, who was present at his teacher Socrates? death bed.Excerpt?All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move. Now a first principle is something which does not come into being. For all that comes into being must come into being from a first principle, but a first principle itself cannot come into being from anything at all; for if a first principle