ARISTOTLE TO AUGUSTINE The location of the philosophical schools of Athens In his lost dialogue Eudemus, for instance, Aristotle expounded a conception of the soul close to that of Plato’s Phaedo He argued vigorously against the thesis that the soul is an attunement of the body, claiming that it is imprisoned in a carcass and capable of a happier life when disembodied The dead are more blessed and happier than the living, and have become 66