Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Immortality of the Soul
The immortality of the soul is important to the argument just because it's important to the concept of recollection. That's its function. It's a mythological explanation of how we might have these sorts of recollections so that when we have a particular encounter with beauty in this world, it means something transcendent. And if you want to interpret that literally in terms of the heavens and afterlife and things like that, I think that's one way to go. But it can really just point to the same sorts of considerations that other rationalist philosophers historically pointed to.
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