OALibJOpen Access Library Journal2333-9705Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/oalib.1105653OALibJ-94646ArticlesBiomedical&Life Sciences Business&Economics Chemistry&Materials Science Computer Science&Communications Earth&Environmental Sciences Engineering Medicine&Healthcare Physics&Mathematics Social Sciences&Humanities The Wise Men: Notes on Plato’s Phaedrus LuizMaurício Bentim da Rocha Menezes1Department of Philosophy of Instituto Federal do Triangulo Mineiro (IFTM), Uberaba, Brazil0208201906081530, July 201924, August 2019 27, August 2019© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

On Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates, in his Second Speech (243e9-257b6), decides to make a demonstration [aπoδειξιc] that the madness of love was given to us by gods for our happiness. This consists in finding the truth abou t human nature of the soul [ψυχncφvσεωc], both divine and human. We take this demonstration as an object of our analysis, specifically the passage 245c, where Socrates will affirm that demonstration will be only credible by the wise men (sophoí) and incredible by skilled (deinoí). This work aims to clarify what kind of distinction is that made by Socrates and why only the wise men can believe in such a demonstration.

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da Rocha Menezes, L.M.B. (2019) The Wise Men: Notes on Plato’s Phaedrus. Open Access Library Journal, 6: e5653. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1105653

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