Phaedrus Essay

and behaviors are found in every living being, to a certain extent. Desires, along with behaviors, are a crucial part to life itself. This aspect implemented in different forms of life plays a large role in critical thinking and decision making. Phaedrus, An Education, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Gulliver’s Travels, and The Descent of Man explore and exemplify different ways desire and behavior affect the thought and decision making process. In the movie, An Education, the main character, Jenny

meaning, knowledge versus wisdom, and the impact of oneself internally, which all culminate into the realization of value within oneself. To find the truth it has been said that one has to look within. It is within those parameters that Siddhartha, Phaedrus, and Oedipus found what they searched so longingly for. On the topic of Siddhartha, his search for enlightenment was more of a search for the meaning of life and the truth behind it. As Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau put it, "The novel

each speaker proposing their own perception on the topic. Moreover, it is evident that all the speeches made prior to Diotima’s appearance in the text may have been a sort of buildup for Socrates’ recollection of his discussion with her like how Phaedrus argues that love motivates one to pursue virtuous acts which is a central theme in Diotima’s dialogue on love or how Pausanias’ categorizes love similar to Diotima’s separation of the various types of loves into stages on a ladder. Consequently,

Altogether it seems that Aristotle’s basic criticism towards sophists is quite similar to Plato’s in his Phaedrus. Namely, the main focus of Aristotle’s censure is circling around the claim that previous theoreticians of rhetoric put emphasis on something quite corollary in nature and secondary to the importance of rhetoric. So, according to Aristotle, the contemporary

actions of both Dionysius and Socrates, in both Bacchae and Phaedrus respectively, are driven by their personal ethics and beliefs in justice. Bacchae, a Greek tragedy written by Euripides, tells the story of the Greek God Dionysus's arrival to ancient city of Thebes, and the city’s reaction towards him and his strange religion. Phaedrus on the other hand is a dialogue, written by Plato, about a series of arguments between Socrates and Phaedrus starting with what makes a good speech, journeying into

philosophical life values in the next few chapters, especially focusing on the difference between Classical and Romantic views. Quality is not mentioned again until Chapter 15, where Pirsig and Chris revisit the college where Pirsig’s former self, Phaedrus, taught. While at the college, Pirsig comes across his old office, and is overcome with memories of his breakthroughs in philosophical thought. One of these memories is of a woman named Sarah, who stopped by his office to ask if he had begun teaching

nobility brought forth by Diotima is reflected in and expanded on notions brought up in previous speeches, particularly those by Phaedrus and Pausanias, resulting in a much more complex understanding of love, its results, and what it stems from.

In Plato's Symposium, the great radical thinkers of Greece gather around and talk about passion and Eros before their participating in their own mischievous acts themselves. Phaedrus great speech about Eors will be evaluated connecting the ties between Eros, passion, and lovers. The speech of Phaedrus is saying that the God of love is great. " For the God is held in honor as eldest among them, said he. An indication that Eros has no parents, nor does anyone, layman, or poet, claim he does"(118)

is capable to comprehend philosophy (Sym. 215d). The height at which Alcibiades holds Socrates supports Phaedrus’ position that the “lover is more godlike than his boy” being that “he is inspired by a god”(12 180b). ADD TRANSITION (develop this idea a little bit more. Not sure how, but it would be a good idea to do). Alcibiades reinforces Phaedrus’ claim that lovers are godlike. However, Phaedrus’ argument

eternal life similar to the catholic belief of eternal life. In the Phaedrus, Socrates says that all divine souls “go to feast at the banquet”(Phaedrus 247b), they climb up and view a place beyond heaven where there is a supreme divine being. “What is in this place is without color and without shape and without solidity, a being that really is what it is, the subject of all true knowledge, visible only to intelligence” (Phaedrus 247c). In his letter to the Hebrews, St. Paul speaks about things on