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Phaedrus — Plato

Phaedrus

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 92 pages

Phaedrus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, set as a conversation between Socrates and Phaedrus outside Athens. It explores love, rhetoric, and the nature of the soul, moving between speech, myth, and philosophical argument. It is worth listening to for its vivid portrayal of philosophical friendship and its reflections on desire, persuasion, and truth.

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PHAEDRUS
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION.
The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium,
and may be regarded either as introducing or following it.
The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of
Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in
the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully
or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and
Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an
aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is

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Contents

  1. PHAEDRUS
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION.
  5. PHAEDRUS
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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