[PW] Quote on suicide

[Even Flood]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:35 PM, S M Colowick <januarye at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, it doesn't mention soldiers, but here's a Platonic source that
>  quotes Socrates:
>
>  "The allegory which the mystics tell us--that we men are put in a sort
>  of guard post, from which one must not release oneself or run
>  away--seems to me to be a high doctrine with difficult implications."
>  - http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/phaedo.htm
>
>  Now we just need to track down that mystical allegory . . .
>
PLato's views  - or some of them - are quoted here:
http://comp.uark.edu/~mpianal/platolaws_sui.htm

Actually, googling on the words plato suicide gave numerous hits. The
most interesting one:
Suicide (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Plato explicitly discussed suicide in two works. First, in Phaedo,
Socrates expresses guarded enthusiasm for the thesis, associated with
the Pythagoreans, ... www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/suicide/
seems to be offline.

Even

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