Love, persuasion, and the soul › Further reading
Michael BrenndoerferOctober 23, 20261 min read
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- Plato, Phaedrus. Read the three speeches together with the later discussion of rhetoric; Jowett's complete translation provides a freely accessible starting point.
- Plato, Republic, Book IV, 436a–441c. This is the principal comparison for the soul's threefold division; the complete text allows the argument to be read in its own setting.
- Plato, Symposium, 201d–212b. Diotima's account develops a related ascent from particular beauties toward beauty itself; the dialogue offers a productive comparison with erotic recollection.
- Plato, Gorgias, 462b–466a. The contrast between expertise and flattery provides another route into the moral problem of persuasion; read the dialogue alongside the Phaedrus's more constructive requirements for rhetoric.
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