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Phaedrus

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato · Benjamin Jowett

FormatEbook
Published1999
Words38,136
LanguageEnglish
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Plato's *Phaedrus* is a Socratic dialogue examining love, rhetoric, the nature of the soul, and the relative merits of speech and writing, here in Benjamin Jowett's English translation. It suits students of philosophy and classics, as well as readers interested in ancient Greek thought.

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher active in the 4th and 5th centuries BCE, who wrote philosophical dialogues. He is known for founding the Academy in Athens and for foundational contributions to Western philosophy, including works on ethics, politics, and metaphysics.

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