Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Socrates' Second Speech on Divine Madness
The first part of Socrates' second speech is essentially a philosophical treatise. It's the kind of thing that you could read from Aristotle or somebody else who's just working through an argument. And then at some point it switches into this kind of mythical thing about the chariot with the two horses and the charioteer, something like that. That gives him a basis for saying you're giving a new theory of what the lover does to his object, which is essentially it's going to be that he improves the beloved.
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