Plato. Phaedrus. 37-page comprehensive study guide; Features an extended summary and 5 sections Phaedrus is a dialogue written Plato around 370 BC. Plato's Phaedrus touches on a broad variety of topics, ranging from rhetoric, to love, dialogue, Socrates and Phaedrus, adopt changing and seemingly Phaedrus Plato, part of the Internet Classics Archive. Commentary: Many comments have been posted about Phaedrus. Download: A 122k text-only version is available for download. Plato's Myths. Thamus and Theuth (Phaedrus 274b 278d) Socrates is having a conversation with his young pupil, Phaedrus under a plane-tree, the banks of the Ilisses. Socrates presents the myth following a discussion of what forms of rhetoric and writing are pleasing to the gods. The Dialogues of Plato in Five Volumes. 3rd ed. Oxford Of Phaedrus, the only interlocutor and the sole audience of Socrates in this dialogue, little or nothing is known except what we learn from Plato. He was the son 152 Malcolm Heath The Unity of Plato's Phaedrus 153 develops this theme The latter part of the dialogue looks which it ought to have) and of coherence or The Phaedrus is a dialogue of Plato in which the characters Socrates and Phaedrus dialogue around the discourse and the love, characterizing in which 2 See e.g. M. Heath, The Unity of Plato's Phaedrus [ Unity ], OSAP 7 (1989), 151-73, and drama, more obviously than many of Plato's dialogues: as is widely The Phaedrus depicts the Platonic Socrates' most explicit exhortation to 'philosophy'. The dialogue there reveals something of his idea of its nature. Phaedrus, whose name translates to "bright" or "radiant", was born to a wealthy family sometime in the mid-5th century BC, and was the first cousin of Plato's stepbrother Demos. All sources remember him as an especially attractive young man. [275d] written words are of any use except to remind him who knows the matter about which they are written. Phaedrus Very true. Socrates Writing, Phaedrus, has this strange quality, and is very like painting; for the creatures of painting stand like living beings, but if one asks them a question, they preserve a solemn silence. And so it is with written words; you might think they spoke as if moments of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus to address these issues. 13. A-T. Of Plato in his Phaedrus a possibility opens up in which this duality of self and world In the Phaedrus, Plato argues that for rhetoric to be an art, it requires a grasp of knowledge of the kinds of soul, at no point in the remainder of the dialogue Plato Dialogs (Dialogues) Summary. (2) Middle (more Plato's own ideas): Gorgias, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, Phaedrus, Cratylus, Timeaus and The Rhetorical Technique of Plato's Phaedrus. Jane V. Curran. Of ail his dialogues, Plato's Phaedrus is the one which deals most fully with the subject of rhetoric Not a bad pair of dialogues. I've heard Plato was an easy read compared to Aristotle, and this is my first good look at the Socratic method of Dialectic. I got the feel from reading this that it was an English translation of a Latin translation from the original Greek, but Plato's meaning was made Plato's Phaedrus Before meeting up with Socrates, whom was Phaedrus visiting? Why does Phaedrus initially refuse to repeat Lysias's speech on lovers? Unlike a tragedy Sophocles, rhetoric lacks characters, dialogue, interaction, In the character of Phaedrus, rhetoric has eroded his belief in any substance defence of the philosophic life, but it is only Plato's dialogue the Phaedrus that 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. This Epilogue helps illustrate the continuity between the Phaedrus and subsequent dialogues, such as the Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, The dialogue contains some of Plato's most significant and famous of Plato's most soaringly lyrical passages, the Phaedrus investigates the Context. Phaedrus was probably composed around 370 b.c.e., but the dramatic date of the dialogue is about 410 b.c.e., about ten years before the trial and death of Socrates. Phaedrus is a direct dialogue; that is, Plato does not use in this dialogue a narrator who retells a conversation of Socrates. occassional annotations on the nine dialogues translated sydenham. And. Copious notes. the latter translator; in which is given. The substance of nearly all the existing greek ms. Commentaries on the philosophy of plato, and a considerable portion of such as are already published. In Socrates. My dear Phaedrus, whence come you, and whither are you going? Phaedrus. I come from Lysias the son of Cephalus, and I am going to take a walk outside the wall, for I have been sitting with him the whole morning; and our common friend Acumenus tells me that it is much more refreshing to walk in the open air than to be shut up in a cloister. Plato's dialogues frequently treat several topics and show their connections to each other. Phaedrus is a model of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about the nature of love to mythical visions of human nature and destiny to the essence of beauty and, finally, to a penetrating discussion of speaking and writing. In Plato: Middle dialogues The first half of the Phaedrus consists of competitive speeches of seduction. Socrates repents of his first attempt and gives a treatment of love as the impulse to philosophy: Platonic love, as in the Symposium, is eros, here graphically described. Plato's Phaedrus is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus. In the dialogue, Phaedrus discusses with Socrates love and passion. Socrates suggests that
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