| #311820 in Books | John Keats | 2009-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.60 x7.60l,.30 | File type: PDF | 176 pages | Phaedrus||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I do know that Socrates talks about love here and he specifically addresses the question of how ...|By MR|It is a classic oldie. I got it because Persig identified his alter ego as Phaedrus. And I was curious. I still do not know why the Zen motorcyclist identified with Phaedrus. I do know that Socrates talks about love here and he specifically addresses the question of how one|About the Author|Robin Waterfield's translations include Plato's Republic, Symposium, Gorgias, Aristotle's Physics, Herodotus' Histories, Plutarch's Greek Lives and Roman Lives, Euripides, Orestes and Other Plays and The First Philosophers: the Presocratics and
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 grow wings 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, ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics) | Plato.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.