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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Phaedrus"”.
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Plato's Symposium: the Other Half. A study of Phaedrus', Pausanias', and Eryximachus' Speeches (Symposium, 178a6-188e4)
… can erôs be viewed as leading to courage (Phaedrus), wisdom (Pausanias), or harmony (Eryximachus) without being denied some of its essential features — inconstancy, desire and pleasure? The thesis is also centrally concerned with two more general questions about the way the Platonic …
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The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals
Socrates engages his audience in Phaedrus with speeches that include revised or newly composed myths that express his theory of philosophical eros. The aim of the speeches is to generate a love for truth that spills over into dialogue. Speeches are a starting point for dialogue, just like physical …
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P. Herc. 1570 Pieces 4, 5, 6a, 6b: [Philodemi] [De divitiis]
… times to Epicurus, and mention is also made of a Phaedrus.</p> <p>Based on vocabulary and thematic content, and by ‘time-honoured convention,’ this work may be ascribed to Philodemus as one book from his multi-volume work <em>De divitiis</em>, sometimes called <em>De divitiis et povertate</em>, of …
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Self-Discovery Journals in the College Composition Classroom
… within their writing. As Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus states above, we write well when we know the truth about that which we are writing. Providing students the occasion to write about themselves will not only increase their writing abilities but will also allow students the chance to look …
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Desire Informing Philosophy in Plato: The Lover, the Tyrant, and the Citizen
… the following the chronology: <em>Symposium, Phaedrus, Republic, Statesman, and Laws</em>. That human failing and ambition equally find desire couched between lack and satiation is radically reconsidered in the course of the <em>Symposium</em> to aim eros towards the possession of the forever …
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Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
… ratios (35aff); the divine and best souls in the Phaedrus participate in the divine chorus, and rise to encounter the Forms’ vision, and philosophical logoi are the highest type of mousikē – they exalt truth and are also hymnic odes to the gods (243bff, 246e-247b, 265c). Republic II-IV decries the …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… a general metaphysics of union from Plato’s *Phaedrus* to the sacramental cosmos of Dionysius the Areopagite, the grounding of semiotics in an effusive divine source establishes the possibility of all subsequent signs, of language, and of transcendence. However, competing interpretations of …
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Making memory: techne, technology, and the refashioning of contemporary memory
… one of the five canons. Starting with Plato's "Phaedrus" and ending with Merlin Donald's Origins of the Modern Mind and Collin Gifford Brooke's <i>Lingua Fracta,</i> my thorough treatment of memory illustrates that even though memory has persisted through the centuries, it has not been properly …
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AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
… of beautiful people in the Symposium and Phaedrus and his arguments that these sorts of experiences provide an insight into the nature of true value and a certain kind of vision: they lead to the knowledge of true Beauty, and illuminate the value of the life lived by the lover of wisdom. …