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Plato's dialogues frequently treat several matters and show their associations to each other. Phaedrus is a style of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about the type of wish to mythical visions of real human nature and destiny to the essence of beauty and, finally, to a penetrating dialogue of speaking and writing. It ends with an study of the love of knowledge as a dialectical activity in the real human mind. Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the wall space of Athens, where he rarely goes, by guaranteeing to share a fresh work by his good friend and coach, Lysias, a famous author of speeches. This dialogue offers a powerful example of the dialectical writing that Plato uses to manifest ideas that are crucial to human living and also to living a good life. Phaedrus shows how oral and written kinds of language relate to each other and also to philosophy. It together embodies the complete process in some of the best poetry ever written. © Agora Publications
