Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Immortality of the Soul
I don't think the status of whether they were true exactly or not is the point of them. You have to hold the myths on their own terms. I guess the question is just where does myth start and stop here that we have the argument for the immortality of the soul clearly not myth. Then this thing about the chariot going round and round, well, it's a myth, but it's clearly just a metaphor. Like he really does have a tripartite picture of the soul and this is one way of putting it. And so saying that's a myth. Don't ask whether it's true or not. It's kind of, you don't say that about a metaphor
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