Feb 18

Phaedrus notes--Bizzell153 falling in love reminds us of our pre-birth experiences of the Divine, and so when we are in love, we want to be near our memories of beauty and the divine where there is no pain and suffering.

155 bottom of the pageSocrates "...the disgrace, I fancy, consists in speaking or writing not well, but disgracefully and badly."

156 persuasion and good speech

157-8 more on rhetoric

158 Socrates' modesty is disingenuous

162 bottom: Socrates: rhetoric is like medicine: specific discourses must be chosen and directed towards the person in order shape their soul and person

this piece I am liking Socrates/Plato more. Part of this is that I believe he did see/understand the Divine, but is putting it in a different frame than what I am used to or how I am used to approaching it.

162 SOME IMPORTANT QUOTE ABOUT RHETORIC