Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Causal Theory of Love
This is the first speech, and it's intended to be, in some sense, Lissius' speech. The analogy is to like truth or goodness, which I think for Plato and Socrates are also objective and not subjective. So there's a mechanism at work that we can apply in arguing for what the effects of the lover will be on the beloved.
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