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Title: Phaedrus
Author: Plato
Translator: Benjamin Jowett
Release date: February 1, 1999 [eBook #1636]
Most recently updated: October 30, 2008
Language: English
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PHAEDRUS
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and
Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is elevated into the ideal, to which in the Symposium mankind are described as looking forward, a…