Fedro by Plato
A young man and an older companion discuss the nature of love, rhetoric, the soul, and the pursuit of truth in a dialogue that moves from impassioned speeches on erotic madness and the soul’s ascent toward beauty to a philosophical account of knowledge, recollection, and the forms; the speaker distinguishes true, divine inspiration from mere cunning persuasion, offers the famous charioteer myth to describe the soul’s struggle between reason and desire, and closes with a critique of writing and a defense of dialectic as the path to genuine understanding.
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- Published
- -369
- Nationality
- Greek
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 60–120 pages
- Original Language
- Ancient greek (attic)
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- Alternate Titles
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- Fedro
- Phaedrus
- Phaidros
- Phædrus
- Φαῖδρος
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