Plato Phaedrus
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Plato

Phaedrus

philosophy

Phaedrus reads Socrates a speech about love. Socrates responds with two of his own — the second a soaring myth about the soul as a charioteer driving two horses, one noble and one base. The most beautiful prose Plato ever wrote.

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