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Learning About Something Means Becoming Wiser: The Platonic Dialogue as a Paradigmatic Model for Writing Center Practice [PDF]

, 2017
As our discipline’s scholars, we must recognize that ours is a history “that is best recognized as an always incomplete narrative” and continue to delve into the past as we seek to inform our future (Lerner 25).
Raign, Kathryn
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Koinōnia in the Symposium: from community to communion?

Areté, 2022
Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Erōs as a god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or at peace.
Zdenek Lenner
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Erik Satie’s Socrate (1918), Myths of Marsyas, and un style dépouillé [PDF]

, 2014
In arguing that underneath the placid, 'stripped-down' style of Socrate there lurks a hidden violence, this essay does not focus on Satie's compositional process, documented in his notebooks; instead, it examines Socrate's performance history and the ...
Samuel Dorf
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Pastoral Places and the City: Environmental Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus

Humanities
Historically, the notion of nature or the place outside the city in Phaedrus has been read as a proto-pastoral dialogue. If we accept this reading of Plato’s dialogue, Phaedrus hierarchizes the landscape where the city is perceived as superior to the ...
Jack Love
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'Philosophy' in Plato's Phaedrus

Plato, 2015
The Phaedrus depicts the Platonic Socrates’ most explicit exhortation to ‘philosophy’. The dialogue thereby reveals something of his idea of its nature. Unfortunately, what it reveals has been obscured by two habits in the scholarship: (i) to ignore the ...
Christopher Moore
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The Problem of Teaching Virtue Between the Protagoras and the Phaedrus

Profil
Socrates’ final argument in the Protagoras is premised on the surprising identification of the pleasant with the good and argues that virtue is the “art of measurement” that can be easily taught to the Many.
Jozef Majerník
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Polio žmogaus ugdymas ir tradicija Faidro kalboje (Symp. 178 a–180 b) | Upbringing of a Citizen of the Polis and Tradition in Phaedrus’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium [PDF]

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2004
Phaedrus’ speech in Plato’s Symposium was often ignored by Platonic scholars as unphilosophical, and has been analysed mostly in its rhetorical aspects. This narrowed the intentions of the dialogue down to theoretical speculations, neglecting a practical
Vytautas Ališauskas
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Deseo de engendrar y de dar a luz en lo bello: La estructura de Eros en el discurso de Diotima y su relación con la generación de conocimiento

Plato, 2020
This paper aims to analyze Diotima’s definition of eros as a desire to beget and give birth in beauty. The main problem lies in the use of the notions of kuêsis, tokos, genesis and gennêsis. We will distinguish the meanings of each term and show that the
Gabriel Arturo García Carrera
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Retour de l’âme et salut de l’homme chez Origène d’Alexandrie

Études Platoniciennes, 2022
Interpreting the nature and destiny of man, Origen was inspired, among other things, by the myth – told by Plato in the Phaedrus (246a-249d) – of the loss and recovery of wings by the soul.
Marco Zambon
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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