Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Mirror of Love
I disagree with that interpretation, at least as the primary interpretation. The love is getting out of it as they become a lover as well, not just of themselves, but the other person. So it's like the lover becomes a fantasist. I don't actually love you. I love the God I see in you, the God I am projecting upon you and trying to make you into. There's something empty about that. They have won self mastery and inward peace. And when life is over with burden shed and wings recovered, they stand victorious in the first of the three rounds in that truly Olympic struggle.
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