As dimensões da linguagem no Fedro de Platão

Abstract

In our research we aim at showing that Plato, as he examines the power of writing and the art of speech understood as rational and logical technique of communication, such as the logographers of his time conceive it, makes room to show its affective and irrational dimension, thereby proving that the rationality of language trought of as technique is not dissociated or in contradiction with its desiderative and passional dimension. We show that Socrates´aim is to point out the factors that impoverish the use of oral or written speech by its producers, insofar as they ignore elements that are essential to dialectic, which should never leave out the specifificit of each kind of listener as well the topic under discussion.