How do you deal with a world that is both Divine and Satanic, hopeful and degenerate, truthful and lying at the same time? This is the question that Socrates grappled with in Plato’s Phaedrus dialogue.
The answer that Plato gave has generally been misunderstood, because most historians thought this was a rhetorical question. This report is an attempt to correct that mistake and show that the issue is an axiomatic matter of solving the paradox of the unity of the opposites in time.
THE PERFORMATIVE TIMELINESS OF PLATO’S PHAEDRUS PART I
