Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Role of Rhetoric in Classical Texts
This was my first time reading this. So I might be the only newbie. This read is the very last dialogue of your freshman year and it's read at the very last seminar of your senior year. It's like that old TV show Kung Fu, you know, when you can take the pebble from my hand. And so if we follow where that leads, it can lead into the kinds of analysis that we would actually do with plays.
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