"Phaedrus" by Plato | Book Discourse

[@magnusswimley3621]

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[@melanatedmastery7646]

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[@lunguan4963]

Great video! It made me think: how can we know if we are thinking logically or in the manner of the temperate steed? From what you explained I would guess that 'opinion to right' would be the answer here, using it to evaluate if our actions are ethical in outcome and intent. Does Plato have some kind of definition for ethical treatment? Otherwise we would never tell if we were harnessed by an orator, or more subtly by the orators/discourses that make up our culture. I don't know if Plato ever took this view of our environment being the orator? I haven't read much of the ancient Greek philosophers but this was a much deeper metaphor than I think the classics get a reputation for.

[@theblackponderer]

@@lunguan4963 In the text, Socrates says that opinion to the right focuses on teaching whereas opinion to the wrong is only interested in persuading. Teaching for Socrates means guiding toward truth, whereas persuading is only interested in capturing passion and is unconcerned with truth.

[@lunguan4963]

@theblackponderer This reminds me of a self-negating power, like how anarchism tends to encourage teachers that raise others till they aren't needed, rather than a teacher doing it for their own ends. Although I don't think the ancient Greeks exactly promoted this power structure

[@theblackponderer]

@@lunguan4963 The thing is, we always need each other no matter how much we grow and develop. Because our capacity for spiritual growth is infinite, since the soul is infinite. This is actually the basis of the anarchist principle, mutual aid. There is no self negation happening.