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Available
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Publication
Penguin Classics (1985), Paperback, 160 pages
Description
The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is elevated into the ideal, to which in the Symposium mankind are described as looking forward, and which in the Phaedrus, as well as in the Phaedo, they are seeking to recover from a former state of existence.
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Plato on rhetoric, and on his own engagement in politics.
Language
Original language
Greek (Ancient)
Physical description
160 p.; 7.74 inches
ISBN
0140442758 / 9780140442755