The Platonic Soul In Plato's Phaedrus

In Plato’s text Phaedrus, readers get different nous of attitude in comparison to Plato’s Gorgias, based on the topics being discussed. Phaedrus touches on the studies of art, and how to correctly practice them, and the author, Plato also goes into depths of details about inner body studies such as the soul, madness and lovers. Within the text, Plato refers to the platonic soul, this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading, this is because if one is trying to move souls, one must understand the souls first, meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot, "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair, and secondly one of the horses
The white horse represents will, and the black horse represent emotion, and the charioteer represent man’s reason. What Plato is trying to get the readers to question and think about is how does a person have the will to do something, but not the ability? This also brings up the concept of self-control, a human needs to have control over themselves to have virtue with the gods. Another key topic used within the text is the study of divine madness, or otherwise known as the madness of
Plato states that one can only obtain divine madness after witnessing true beauty on earth, thus when seeing such beauty, that person then grows wings and can fly amongst the gods, those who do not witness that rare beauty remain mortal on earth. When flying among the gods, the person loses all regard for what is taking place below them, this is due to the “madness”, this is Plato referring that madness that is caused by the gods. This section of writing is very unique for Plato, normally he is arguing for perfection and virtue, but in this moment of the text Plato is acknowledging that humans are creatures that get distracted, and make irrational decisions. Aside from the inner emotional aspects of in Phaedrus, Plato also touches specific practices of art, such as rhetoric and writing. The second half of Phaedrus, Plato explores the notion of