Episode 142: Plato's "Phaedrus" on Love and Speechmaking
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Socrates hangs out in the country flirting with his buddy Phaedrus. And what is this "Platonic" love? Using the enticement of desire not to rush toward fulfillment, but to get you all excited about talking philosophy. Socrates critiques a speech by renowned orator Lysias, who claimed that love is bad because it's a form of madness, where people do things they then regret after love fades. Socrates instead delivers a myth that shows the spiritual benefits of loving and being loved. With guest Adam Rose.
End song: "Summertime" by New People, from Might Get It Right (2013).
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| 1:06.2 | are at one point set on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. |
| 1:09.8 | Our question for episode 142 might either be what is love or what is rhetoric or possibly |
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| 1:16.0 | The source of this confusion is our reading today Plato's dialogue, the Fadress. |
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