Abstract

In the Phaedrus, Plato's Socrates distinguishes himself from the natural scientists of his day and indicates that the true philosophical attitude, the love of real human wisdom, shares something essential with the mythical attitude. In the following essay, I argue that Socrates criticizes science here for its failure to attend to aporia, to recognize an essentially questionworthy aspect of the world of human experience, an aspect I will refer to as distance. Furthermore, I argue that Socrates aligns his own philosophical activity with myth in its maintenance of this distance.

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