Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This work is about Plato’s dialogue Phaedo and its two central themes: the immortality of the human Soul, and the reality of entities known as Forms. It analyzes in detail the four major arguments of the Phaedo and discusses such topics as: the nature of the Soul; what it is to be something; the morality of suicide; the possibility of reincarnation; the idea that we know something from before we were born; the status of causal laws; and the adequacy conditions for statements involving them. Throughout there is discussion of Platonic Forms, to which the entirety of Chapter 3 is devoted; and a difference among them, that between Forms in nature, and Forms in us, is made in the final chapter. Throughout, the work argues that the best available model for the relation between a Form and its participants is the relation between a type and its tokens. Types have nothing in common with their tokens except for sharing a name.</jats:p>