Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Phaedrus Introduction: The Phaedrus and the Symposium are the "mystic" dialogues. It might surprise us that a superbly rational and realistic thinker such as Socrates can have in him as well the qualities of a visionary. Socrates is able to combine into a unity subjects that appear to have the widest diversity. Here in the Phaedrus, there is a discussion about literary style that is at the same time a discussion about erotic love! But we shall see how (here and in the Symposium) he takes the subject of love onto a new level altogether, so that it serves as an allegoric...
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