Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Peter - GoodreadsSpoiler alert: This book is not about a "philosophy of love" as many reviewers seem to believe. As every dream has its manifest content (a storyline) that masks a latent content (the suppressed ... Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Eric - GoodreadsThough I'm into love, my real interest in this dialogue has to do with its latter parts. So I'll zip through the early sections on love like a speedy fly: As Phaedrus is wandering outside Athens, he ... Read full review
Review: Plato: Phaedrus (Library of Liberal Arts)
User Review - Vince - GoodreadsI need to find a compendium of all major Greek works - tragedy, comedy and history, including all of Plato's works - with analytical/supplemental text. Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Jeff - GoodreadsA difficult read not because of subject matter but because of a bother to actually sit down and read. Plato makes some interesting points, has a strange discourse about love with boys, and ends with ... Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Lindsey - GoodreadsI'm not necessarily rating this according to its value, as I understand (like the Phaedo) that it's a fundamental text. Rather, I'm rating it like I'd rate any other book: by how much I enjoyed it ... Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Kouyoum - GoodreadsI have just finished reading the french version. What a surprise ! What a cold shower ! This is futuristic, it is not even contemporary ! A beauty in every way, a wonderful "promenade" in time... I ... Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - GoodreadsEvery rhetorical scholar reads the Phaedrus, and I have done so repeatedly. It is certainly one of Plato's more lively dialogues, which is surprizing considering the contempt he had for the habitude ...
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - 10brandyb - GoodreadsI understand the cultural differences between now and them, but the man/boy love thing put me off while reading this. I walked away from this piece with the question of what is more powerful: culture or human nature? Read full review
Review: Phaedrus
User Review - Paul Haspel - GoodreadsPlato's dialogues take on greater depth and resonance the more of them one reads. Socrates' character in them remains much the same: seemingly diffident, almost self-effacing, as he asks a series of ... Read full review
Review: Plato: Phaedrus (Library of Liberal Arts)
User Review - Alvinenator - GoodreadsPlato's "critical thinking" bits are a little fussy, but his lyrical passages are just extraordinary. Really proves that Plato isn't as po-faced as people make him out to be. Read full review
