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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 184 EAN: 9780941051545 ISBN: 0941051544 Label: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company Manufacturer: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: March 01, 2003 Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company Studio: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company Related Items:
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 Rating: - Without deepest contemplation of the Soul, all is in error._I have heard some call this work a confused jumble of unrelated concepts. These people just didn't get it. There is one unified theme to the Phaedrus: without a deep connection to the soul and to the higher Reality only accessible to the soul, then all human endeavors are in error. _The first part of the dialogue deals with three speeches on the topic of love. This is used only as an example and is not the primary theme (though it is an extremely thorough and compelling examination ... Read More Rating: - Brilliant ScholarshipThe central problem to any work of literature or philosophy is that of contextualization. Authors do not write in a cultural vacuum by rather in a complex socio-cultural milieu. The further we are removed in time from the author the more out of context the work appears. Plato wrote the Phaedrus for a fifth century BC audience but we as modern readers are no longer familiar with the culture, language, mores, religion, and values of that period. Scully’s version of the Phaedrus is ... Read More 
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