Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Living Authentically
In the feederus and in other platonic dialogues, one of the key issues is what's the dog and what's the tail? Is it an Christian interpretation, literally preparation for the afterlife or is it on an existentialist interpretation? Exactly. Living authentically is being unto death. And so let's not decide the matter here. I can very much see that Nietzsche being a classical scholar and very steeped in Plato, the fact that he wrote his eternal recurrence, myth,. It's exactly the same take on myth that at least one could reasonably drive from this.
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