A personal resting place for my thoughts throughout my journey.
Where I share what I read and my impressions
The Phaedrus by Plato
My aim is not to recount the story chronologically, nor fully cover its contents. On Madness and divine recollection Socrates introduces the Four Divine Maniai (theia mania) as part of his response to Lysias’s sōphrosynē (sober rationality). According to Socrates, the greatest goods are bestowed upon through divine madness rather than human prudence/rationality. The context…