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American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
Plato the Writer
Abstract
This paper attempts to explore the criticism brought forth against the art of writing by Plato via the use of Socrates in
Phaedrus, acting as a mouthpiece, in order to better understand Plato’s philosophical discourses through the lens of a
reader trying to question, understand, critique or agree with him in the 21st century. In this essay, I shall be attempting to
use a modified version of the dialectical method itself to arrive at a conclusion.
