Episode 142: Plato’s “Phaedrus” on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Paradox of Reasoning
Socrates is constantly referring to the gods and talking about being godlike or not godlike, but taking for granted some kind of fairly typical understanding of what the gods are. That insistence on that playfulness and almost the kind of mysticism about it is utterly serious. At the very end of it, he'll associate that kind of literalness with the act of writing - a lack of playfulness over seriousness when something actually commits something to paper.
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