Abstract

The article deals with the question of the embodiment of the soul as discussed in Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus. Phaedrus is testimony to Plato’s new concept of nature and his new sensibility for it, both of which grew out of a philosophical comprehension of the essence of life as continuous movement, present in the same way both with heavenly bodies and in human mind. Only thus and the understanding of life as movement opened for Plato a view of an essentially new concept of the soul as a permanent and unwavering self-moving force of existence and being, which inseparably binds earthly nature and human life to the totality of heavenly occurrences.