Truth and Rhetoric in Phaedrus: does Plato deny that rhetoric can ever be used for truth? Can it?
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is there any relationship to the natural wild in phaedrus that causes Socrates to act "mad" and the natural wild in A Midsummer Night's Dream that causes the lovers to act "mad" in the Shakespeare play? Is this idea of madness in nature a recurring theme throughout history?
