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cameronius's review against another edition
3.0
Socrates on rhetoric, writing and love. One of the easiest dialogues to cruise through but there's more than meets the eye here, as is often the case with Plato.
fab_fab's review against another edition
4.0
Not Plato trying to convince me to not take up a lover lol
facchinibeatrice's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Platone non delude mai, quest’opera racchiude perfettamente la maggior parte del suo pensiero
shihangh's review against another edition
4.0
Plato's "critical thinking" bits are a little fussy, but his lyrical passages are just extraordinary. Really proves that Plato isn't as po-faced as people make him out to be.
deinnos's review against another edition
4.0
Probably my favorite of the dialects that I have read so far. In this one we can clearly see how the philosophy presented in the dialogue is more of Plato's, and he is merely using Socrates as a character. You would simply read this text and assume that the main topic is Love, better known to the Greeks as Eros, but it isn't sexual in nature. Yes, it causes sexual desire, but it serves only as a means to a way, and Beauty as the initiator. The goal at the end of that Love and Beauty is what truly matters: achieving Logos. To be able to completely articulate what Plato means by "Logos", you will have to understand his Idea of Forms. So if you have read The Republic, you will get much more out of Phaedrus than reading the dialect by itself. It's a very beautiful text and one that I can see myself reading over and over again.
luckysel's review against another edition
3.0
“As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.”
Love is madness. Thus the debate of ‘friends with benefits’ in an ancient setting starts. Although Socrates is able to support it for the sake of the argument, he’s eventually opposes to the idea as some of life's greatest blessings flow from madness. Madness of love is a divine intervention.
Interesting topic to choose to discuss rhetorics. I did not expect Socrates to be such a comedian.
Love is madness. Thus the debate of ‘friends with benefits’ in an ancient setting starts. Although Socrates is able to support it for the sake of the argument, he’s eventually opposes to the idea as some of life's greatest blessings flow from madness. Madness of love is a divine intervention.
Interesting topic to choose to discuss rhetorics. I did not expect Socrates to be such a comedian.