Phaedrus

Name: Phaedrus
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ISBN: 9780801485329

ISBN-10: 0801485320

ISBN-13: 9780801485329

Edition: 1998

Authors: Plato, James H. Nichols, James H. Nichols

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Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to growwings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passionately sought, thus allying it to philosophy. The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to theliving teaching of a Socratic philosopher.The shifts of topic and register have given rise to doubts about…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction


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Phaedrus


Explanatory Notes


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Index of Names