Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Dialectic of Socrates
Mark O'Mara: If you really love someone, you don't put them in a box. He says there's two kinds of madness, human madness and divine madness. It just turns out that the bodily kind of love is pernicious for the beloved, he says. And therefore, knowing the difference between the two makes all the difference. "I'm just having trouble with this as a he's the guy that came up with the dialectic"
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