Dividing Madness and the Appearances of Eros in the Phaedrus

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dividing Madness and the Appearances of Eros in the Phaedrus

Original language description

The criteria behind the dialogue’s criticism of writing and the argument for the superiority of spoken over written λóγος is applied to Lysias’s and Socrates’s speeches on Eros and madness and Phaedrus’s and Socrates’s critical examination of these speeches. The argument is made that the dialogue’s dramatic portrayal of both these speeches and their examination present written word images that conjure up in the soul of the reader Socrates’s and Phaedrus’s original spoken λóγος. It follows from this that the criteria for assessing their λóγος should be that which that λóγος presents with regard to distinguishing good and bad speech, not good and bad writing (which are not investigated in the dialogue). In line with this, the inconsistencies between the divisions of madness and the appearances of Eros in the speeches and their examination in the dialogue point not to a deficiency in Plato’s writing but to the original investigation of the community of madness and Eros in Socrates’s and Phaedrus’s spoken λóγος. Interpreted thusly, the community in question is established not by argument but by its appearance in the λóγος of the Lover Socrates and his Beloved Phaedrus. This appearance is one that the reader may share in, insofar as the dialogue’s written word images serve as reminders to the reader of the knowledge they already possess of Eros’s community with madness and its source in the beauty of the face and body parts of their Beloved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kronos: metafizyka, kultura, religia

ISSN

2392-0963

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

72-83

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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