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“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato THE SCHOOL OF LOVE Phaedrus is commonly paired on the one hand with Gorgias and on the other with Symposium -

[HARRY's apartment from When Harry Met Sally. HARRY is asleep on his couch. On the table next to him are a mostly-empty bottle of bourbon and a copy of Phaedrus. Enter SOCRATES.] SOCRATES: Good evening, Harry. HARRY: How-- SOCRATES: Don't worry, I'm not real. This is a dream. HARRY: Uh-- SOCRATES: I see Leggi tutto

A Twist in Your Toga As they say in the classics, I’m glad I reviewed "The Symposium" before "Phaedrus". http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Although the two relate to similar subject matter, it’s uncertain in what order they were written. However, "Phaedrus" isn’t the toga party that "The Sympos Leggi tutto

I read PHAEDRUS for a specific purpose. Since the mid-20th century, there has been an ongoing effort to re-interpret Plato. Those pursuing this effort, not surprisingly, see it as the pursuit of a deeper truth. I assume that they are sincere in this belief. Critics of the reinterpretation see many re Leggi tutto

When Phaedrus recites to Socrates a speech by Lysias on the topic of love, the two enter into a dialogue in which Socrates makes a speech of his own on the topic and they expand the conversation to include a discussion of rhetoric and the value of knowing the truth. Plato, student of Socrates and tea Leggi tutto