Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus Sachs Joe
In the Symposium and the Phaedrus, Plato presents an array of speeches about love, but there is almost no conversation directly exploring that topic in either dialogue. There are disagreements and…
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In the Symposium and the Phaedrus, Plato presents an array of speeches about love, but there is almost no conversation directly exploring that topic in either dialogue. There are disagreements and inconsistencies within both dialogues that may spark an unfolding of thinking about love, but that dialectical motion must occur between the speeches and between the lines of Plato's texts; the reader must do the work, provoked, invited, and assisted by what they contain. The context for our thinking includes in one case the subject of tragedy and comedy, in the other the nature of rhetoric and writing, but it is philosophy, and not poetry or politics, that persistently claims the center of attention. The dialogues themselves seem as different as night from day, as urbane wit from rustic charm, but do they point to opposing or converging attitudes
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