Book contents
- Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Love in Plato
- Chapter 1 Plato on Love
- Chapter 2 The Selfishness of Platonic Love?
- Chapter 3 Love and Rhetoric as Types of Psychagōgia
- Chapter 4 Plato on the Love of Wisdom
- Part II Development of Platonic Love in Antiquity
- Part III Love and Metaphysics during the Middle Ages
- Part IV Platonic Love during the Renaissance
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Locorum
Chapter 3 - Love and Rhetoric as Types of Psychagōgia
from Part I - Love in Plato
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
- Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Love in Plato
- Chapter 1 Plato on Love
- Chapter 2 The Selfishness of Platonic Love?
- Chapter 3 Love and Rhetoric as Types of Psychagōgia
- Chapter 4 Plato on the Love of Wisdom
- Part II Development of Platonic Love in Antiquity
- Part III Love and Metaphysics during the Middle Ages
- Part IV Platonic Love during the Renaissance
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Locorum
Summary
Love and rhetoric are two major topics in Plato’s Phaedrus, unified by the dialogue’s theme of psychagōgia, or soul-leading. In Socrates’ great speech, the Palinode, Socrates explains how properly directed eros can assist souls in becoming the types of souls who will be capable of ascending closer to the forms and who will know themselves better. The Palinode is also itself an example of Socratic soul-leading with Phaedrus. Socrates acts akin a true lover to Phaedrus, in leading him towards philosophy and a philosophically informed view of rhetoric.
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- Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance , pp. 49 - 63Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022