Phaedrus

Proper noun

Meaning

Phaedrus

A Roman cognomen.

Examples

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus. Richard Weaver

Phaedrus (dialogue), a dialogue of Plato's. Phaedrus

He speaks approvingly of this, and other forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the Phaedrus (265a–c), and yet in the Republic wants to outlaw Homer's great poetic art, and laughter as well. Source: Internet

Phaedrus Aristotle saw a relationship between the beautiful (to kalon) and virtue, arguing that "Virtue aims at the beautiful." Source: Internet

Plato wrote in his Phaedrus that the "first prophecies were the words of an oak", and that those who lived at that time found it rewarding enough to "listen to an oak or a stone, so long as it was telling the truth". Source: Internet

Phaedrus is a model of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about the nature of love to mythical visions of human nature an. Source: Internet

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