Friday, October 12th, 1979

WISDOM'S GOLDENROD, ALAN BERKOWITZ CLASS NOTES

(TYPED)

OCTOBER 12b, 1979

PLATO; PHAEDRUS

TOPIC: Plato

SUBJECT: Phaedrus

SUBSUBJECTS: Love, Mania, Soul, Three Bodies of Soul

BOOKS READ FROM OR REFERENCED:

• Thomas Taylor (tr.), The Phaedrus (Vol. 3), in The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles

DIAGRAM embedded in these notes:

• FIGURE 1979 1012b-1-AB. Three Bodies, Six Sheaths, Liberated Order, and Six Cosmic Tattvas.

TYPED AND REFORMATTED by IT 2023

NOTES:

• RETYPED HANDWRITTEN NOTES (hence V08). From Alan Notes 6 Procl Plotin Bud 1979 0630 to 1979 1230.PDF.

• This is 1979 10/12b, a class on Plato; Phaedrus, and the second entry associated with this date. 1979 10/12a = Hinduism; Vedanta; Epistemology.

• All capitalization and punctuation corrected, abbreviations spelled out.

1979 10/12b at Wisdom's Goldenrod

Plato; Phaedrus

[Alan Notes 1979 1012 Begin]

10/12/79 Phaedrus

Intemperate love -- lower irrational desire, of the soul for the body -- lowest kind of love, is spoken of by Lysius.

Mania - inspiration: that which comes to the soul from beyond.

The primary definition of the soul as self-motive is equivalent to saying that the soul is life.

Three bodies of soul, p. 321n. [Note: Thomas Taylor (tr.), The Phaedrus (Vol. 3), in The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-Five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, footnote on p. 321.]

[FIGURE 1979 1012b-1-AB. Three Bodies, Six Sheaths, Liberated Order, and Six Cosmic Tattvas. LS = Linga Sarira; KR = Kama Rupa; SS = Sthula Sarira. Facsimile scan from AB class notes.]

[Alan Notes 1979 1012 End]