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Enthusiasm and Divine Madness: On the Platonic Dialogue Phaedrus
by Josef Pieper
Binding: Paperback, 3rd edition, 109 pages
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
List Price: USD $11.00
Weight: 40
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 8.48 x W: 0.48 inches
ISBN 10: 189031823X
ISBN 13: 9781890318239
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Plato's famous dialogue, the Phaedrus, was variously subtitled in antiquity: 'On Beauty,' 'On Love,' 'On the Psyche.' It is also concerned with the art of rhetoric, of thought and communication. Pieper, noted for the grace and clarity of his style, gives an illuminating and stimulating interpretation of the dialogue. Leaving the more recondite scholarly preoccupations aside, he concentrates on the content, bringing the actual situation in the dialogue Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate alive. Equally alive is the discussion of ideas, which are brought to bear on contemporary experience and made to prove the perennial validity of Socratic wisdom, and its power to excite the mind. The main thesis that in poetry and in love man is 'beside himself,' that is, divinely inspired is discussed with reference to modern poets, novelists, and modern psychology.

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