Nussbaum, Martha C., "'This story isn't true: Madness, Reason, and Recantation in the Phaedrus," The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 200-34.

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‘My dear friend Phaedrus’, calls Socrates. ‘Where are you going? And where do you come from”? So begins this self-critical and questioning dialogue. Socrates has just caught sight of this impressive young person, whose name means ‘Sparkling’, and who is clearly radiant with health, good looks, and ability. (And perhaps, catching sight of him, he is struck as if by a ‘stream of beauty entering in through his eyes’. Perhaps he feels both warmed and inundated, filled at once with eagerness and awe.

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