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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE PHAEDo of Plato
the body by rivets of pleasure and pain, and are still wedded to bodily concerns at the moment of death, will notbecome totally immaterial, but will haunt the tomb as shadowy ghosts, until they enter the prison of a new body,perhaps of a lascivious ass, or a vicious wolf, or at best, a sociable and industrious bee.Simmias now undermines the basis of Socrates' argument by offering a different, and subtle, conception of the soul.Consider, he says, a lyre made out of wood and strings. The lyre may...