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  • Chapter 3 - Love and Rhetoric as Types of Psychagōgia

  • from Part I - Love in Plato
  • Edited by Carl Séan O'Brien, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book:
    Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance
    Published online:
    25 August 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022, pp 49-63

  • 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.