@article{ART003244304},
author={Jae-ho Seo},
title={The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2025},
volume={82},
number={3},
pages={53-92},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jae-ho Seo
TI - The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2025
VL - 82
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 53
EP - 92
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Plato’s Phaedrus engages a wide range of philosophical themes with a rich and complex way. In particular, Socrates’ second speech, namely palinode, is one of the most philosophically distinctive parts. It addresses not only eros and divine madness but also the human and divine soul, body, and recollection, which seem unrelated with eros and divine madness. For this reason, the palinode constitutes the most interpretively challenging part of Phaedrus.
In this paper, I elucidate that themes seemingly tangential to eros, such as soul, recollection, embodiment, and becoming godlike, are in fact integral to demonstrating the central thesis of the palinode. In this way, I also contend that the mythical explanation of soul and recollection in palinode is necessary for revealing eros as the process of self-discipline, through which the human being as the unity of soul and body becomes godlike. In other words, I aims to reveal that recollection is not an isolated endeavor of a solitary agent but is actualized within the relationship of erotic attachment between the lover’s soul and the beloved’s soul.
KW - Soul;Eros;Recollection;Incarnation;Body;Inspiration;;Madness;Divine Statue;Godlikeness
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
ER -
Jae-ho Seo. (2025). The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(3), 53-92.
Jae-ho Seo. 2025, "The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.82, no.3 pp.53-92. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo "The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82.3 pp.53-92 (2025) : 53.
Jae-ho Seo. The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness. 2025; 82(3), 53-92. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo. "The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.3 (2025) : 53-92.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo. The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 82(3), 53-92. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo. The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2025; 82(3) 53-92. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo. The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness. 2025; 82(3), 53-92. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
Jae-ho Seo. "The Recollection of the Incarnated Soul in Plato’s Phaedrus: Focusing on the Process of Becoming Godlike through Eros and Divine Madness" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 82, no.3 (2025) : 53-92.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.82.3.202508.53
