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The Soul in Ancient Thought
Manage episode 312036922 series 3217046
Reading the Phaedo, it struck me how similar Plato’s ideas about the soul are to those of Christianity, and this in turn led me to an investigation in which I compared ideas about the soul and the afterlife held by the ancient Hebrew people to those held by the early Christians, and those in turn to those presented in Plato’s dialogues and the other works of Ancient Greek philosophy.
Transcript with citations available at asatanistreadsthebible.com
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Manage episode 312036922 series 3217046
Reading the Phaedo, it struck me how similar Plato’s ideas about the soul are to those of Christianity, and this in turn led me to an investigation in which I compared ideas about the soul and the afterlife held by the ancient Hebrew people to those held by the early Christians, and those in turn to those presented in Plato’s dialogues and the other works of Ancient Greek philosophy.
Transcript with citations available at asatanistreadsthebible.com
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asatanistreadsthebible/support134 episodes
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