A word that can mean "potion", "remedy", or "poison" is the starting point for Jacques Derrida's reading of this dialogue, titled "Plato's Pharmacy."
In this Platonic dialogue, our good friend Socrates compares his surroundings, which are a "fair-resting place" featuring a chorus of cicadas, to a spot sacred to Achelous. Later, Socrates compares his words to the epitaph of Midas's tomb, whose lines can be read in any order because they do not succeed each other logically. A word that can mean "potion", "remedy", or "poison" is the starting point for Jacques Derrida's reading of this dialogue, titled "Plato's Pharmacy." In this dialogue, Socrates uses the image of a charioteer attempting to drive two winged horses of different qualities of stock to represent the soul, which is said to re-grow wings in response to an emotion that was also treated in The Symposium. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates discusses the art of rhetoric after reading a discourse by Lysias that suggests that those who are not in love make better sexual partners.
In this Platonic dialogue, our good friend Socrates compares his surroundings, which are a "fair-resting place" featuring a chorus of cicadas, to a spot sacred to Achelous.
Phaedrus