Discourses on the topic of love and rhetoric take place in this moment between Socrates and Phaedrus. Socrates states how love is strength and not a weakening agent to the friendship of the lovers. The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love that serve as a metaphor for the discussion of the proper use of rhetoric. . The dialogue is given unmediated, in the direct words of Socrates and Phaedrus, without other interlocutors to introduce the story or give it to us; it comes first hand, as if we are witnessing the events themselves.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Plato: Discussion of Socrates with Phaedrus.
Discourses on the topic of love and rhetoric take place in this moment between Socrates and Phaedrus. Socrates states how love is strength and not a weakening agent to the friendship of the lovers. The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love that serve as a metaphor for the discussion of the proper use of rhetoric. . The dialogue is given unmediated, in the direct words of Socrates and Phaedrus, without other interlocutors to introduce the story or give it to us; it comes first hand, as if we are witnessing the events themselves.
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