Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Power of Repulsion
We have a force of attraction but we need a force of repulsion essentially and that force will be reverence. And when by suffering the same thing many times the navish one ceases from wantonness having been humbled at last it follows the chair tier's forethought. Whenever it sees the beautiful one it is utterly destroyed by fear. So that it last happens that the lover soul follows the boyfriend feeling a sense of shame and dread.
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