I recently read the Phaedrus, and I felt like I didn't even get to know the character that the work was titled after. Why are Socrates' speeches aimed at him specifically? He starts up the conversation by brining up Lysias' speech, but what about him (and not Lysias) warrants the whole discussion?
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Iβve started working my way through the Aesopβs Fables latinized by Phaedrus, using the 1862 interlinnear text as the donor of the Latin just because that was the first PDF that I stumbled across.
Now after perusing YouTube am under impression that this text may not be a high quality version of the original Latinβ¦. For those pros amongst us - which original manuscript would likely be the most faithful to Phaedrusβs original latin, and bonus points if you can point me towards where I could download it?
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My main concern in this dialogue is the metatextuality as a concept and dialogism (in Bakhtin's terms) that is omnipresent in the textual and literary sphere even when the author or, for that matter, any individual is not present or there to defend it; so that the author has to die (as Barthes said) in order for his work to achieve the needed autonomy (and this can be used both to explain Plato's work as a whole and Lysias' speech which is read at the beginning) and the art of interpretation to be born. Naturally, I've read Derrida's essay Plato's Pharmacy, but was interested to know if there were other theorists dealing with this work of art in a similar manner.
I have been reading philosophical writings recently, and read Phaedrus. I am kind of confused as to both parts of Phaedrus are linked together, regarding love and friendship and then philosophy and rhetoric and the soul.
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I've been wanting to use a Darkus Phaedrus Ultra in a theme deck that I'm gonna be building, but I've not been able to find it at all. According to the wiki, it was apparently a cancelled product, but I've seen Diamond Darkus Phaedrus Ultra, whose card is an evolution of Darkus Phaedrus Ultra. Does Darkus Phaedrus Ultra actually exist? How can you use the Diamond evolution if there's no base Bakugan?
Phaedrus is a dialogue written by Plato that explores many themes. One of the most central themes is an inquiry about divine inspiration. I'll copy and paste what Wikipedia has to say in regards to this section, and I feel one can notice the many nuances and references that may even point to earlier works. Given the new image of the Spotify banner, Cenizas religious themes, Nymphs mythological themes, Pomegranates being a muse to a film about religious conflict and interplay, Sirens alluding to Homer's works- its all there and Jaar's been open about the inspirations drawn from his studies in literature and applied to his musical projects. So let me know what you think.
From Wikipedia:
In the Phaedrus, Socrates makes the rather bold claim that some of life's greatest blessings flow from madness; and he clarifies this later by noting that he is referring specifically to madness inspired by the gods. Phaedrus is Plato's only dialogue that shows Socrates outside the city of Athens, out in the country. It was believed that spirits and nymphs inhabited the country, and Socrates specifically points this out after the long palinode with his comment about listening to the cicadas. After originally remarking that "landscapes and trees have nothing to teach me, only people do",[Note 54] Socrates goes on to make constant remarks concerning the presence and action of the gods in general, nature gods such as Pan and the nymphs, and the Muses, in addition to the unusually explicit characterization of his own daemon. The importance of divine inspiration is demonstrated in its connection with the importance of religion, poetry and art, and above all else, love. Eros, much like in the Symposium, is contrasted from mere desire of the pleasurable and given a higher, heavenly function. Unlike in the Ion, a dialogue dealing with madness and divine inspiration in poetry and literary criticism, madness here must go firmly hand in hand with reason, learning, and self-control in both love and art. This rather bold claim has puzzled readers and scholars of Plato's work for centuries because it clearly shows that Socrates saw genuine value in the irrational elements of human life, despite many other dialogues that show him arguing that one should pursue beauty and that wisdom is the most beautiful thing of all.
