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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: completion of this; when the soul exists in herself, and is released from
the body and the body is released from the soul, what is this but death?
Just so, he replied.
There is another question, which will probably throw light on our present
inquiry if you and I can agree about it:--Ought the philosopher to care
about the pleasures--if they are to be called pleasures--of eating and
drinking?
Certainly not, answered Simmias.
And what about the pleasures of love--should he care for them?
By no means.
And will he think much of the other ways of indulging the body, for
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