Stephen Mulhall

British philosopher and academic, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at New College, Oxford, known for work on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Stanley Cavell, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of literature and film.

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  1. 1. Philosophical Myths Of The Fall

    A close reading of Plato’s Phaedo that shows how its famous accounts of the soul and of death mingle rigorous argument with mythic narrative, arguing that myth in philosophy is not mere ornament but a way of expressing and testing ideas that reason alone cannot fully capture; the book traces the dialogue’s argumentative moves about immortality, the moral stance of the philosopher facing death, and the limits of rational proof, and draws out how Plato uses myth to confront existential questions while preserving philosophical—even critical—ambition.

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