Purification
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in the texts
Phaedo
The separation of soul from body and its concerns, identified by Socrates as the true nature of virtue and the goal of the philosophic life.
They are self-restrained because of a kind of self-indulgence.
They are in every way hostile to the body and they desire to have the soul apart by itself alone.
but truth is in fact a purification from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification.
Sophist
The branch of discrimination that retains what is better and discards what is worse, divided into purification of the body (medicine, gymnastics, bathing) and purification of the soul, the latter traced down to cross-questioning.
True.
Very true.
That is true.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The concept of ritual purification of sacred space, enacted by removing burials and prohibiting death and birth on Delos.
The same winter also the Athenians purified Delos, in obedience, as they professed, to a certain oracle.
All the sepulchres of those who had died in Delos they removed, and commanded that in future no one should either die in the island or bear a child, but that [in such cases all should] be carried across to Rhenea.