Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Phaedrus: A Symposium on Private Rhetoric
In the Phaedrus we're dealing with private rhetoric, in fact between a lover and a beloved. There are lots of playful, unexplicit and conceptual connections that you're supposed to as a reader work out for yourself. It also means right there implicitly from the beginning and the idea of a lover trying to convince a beloved. Right? Yeah. Persuasion right from the beginning or whether you should give into that persuasion and what that means and what kind of persuasion is the right kind of persuasion.
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