HIS 275 Chapter 2: Plato - Phaedrus Notes
4 Feb 2019
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Socrates meets phaedrus while walking through the streets of athens. Phaedrus has been with lysias all morning - son of cephalus. Phaedrus and other men listened to lysias deliver a speech on love. Lysias argues that it is better to give your favors to someone who does not love you than someone who does . Socrates is interested in hearing this speech, but phaedrus is not able to recite it in a worthy manner like lysias. Apparently, phaedrus asked lysias to repeat his speech many times in order to commit it to memory. Although he desperately wanted to recite the speech to socrates, he had to play it cool. Proposes to summarize the general sense listing all the arguments in proper order . However, socrates sees something in phaedrus" hand which turns out to be a copy of the speech. Truth now revealed, they head off to read it together. Approach a tree on the banks of the river ilisus.
