How would you characterize Socrates’ response to the subject of Lysias’ speech
Read: Plato’s Phaedrus, pp. 476-479 (227a-230e)
Answers to the following study-guide questions to a few essential sentences. Each answer should be no more than two to three sentences. Indicate the place in the text that supports your answer and provide an abbreviated direct citation for support. Please note the error on page 478 at 230a, line four; correct the error by changing the words “current beliefs” to “traditional beliefs.”
Plato indirectly introduces us to a number of “crises” that he, no doubt, wants us to recognize in the first few pages of his Phaedrus. We catch sign of them through the conversation between Socrates and Phaedrus leading up to Lysias’ speech. One of these crises is centered around love. Identify two other possible crises.
What according to Phaedrus is the “clever” part of Lysias’ speech?
How would you characterize Socrates’ response to the subject of Lysias’ speech when Phaedrus first tells Socrates what it was about?
What is it that Socrates stops Phaedrus from doing?
How does Socrates characterize the “men of science” (229cd)? (Identify as many characteristics as possible using simple “bullet” points).
How do “the men of science” approach mythical things/creatures (229c-230b)? What is the method that they use?
Why doesn’t Socrates go along with the “men of science” (with their approach to mythical things) but rather relies upon the “traditional beliefs” about them?
Why for Socrates is it “ridiculous to inquire into extraneous matters”?
What are the names of the two trees that are by the place where Phaedrus is to read out loud Lysias’ speech?
How would you characterize Phaedrus, the kind of person that he represents in this dialogue?
How would your characterize Lysias, the kind of person that he represents in the dialogue?
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