Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Platoon of Love
When I was first going through this, I was feeling like, oh, rehash, rehash. Well, I did theoretically go to St. John's and read this twice. But it might as well have been for the first time. They're not identical. It sounds like you've rhetorically inserted an extra syllable on to them. The sophists, people that argue in courts and they don't care about what the truth is. To do it right, you would have to add some philosophical element to it. And love we saw in the symposium, several different characters putting forward ideas about love.
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