Ch. 6 - Shamanism.
Previous chapters recapitulated the 4 kinds of divine madness from Phaedrus*.
Knowing Cornford, here he will recapitulate the contradiction at the heart of Pythagoreanism (see Cornford's FRtP)
*see Griswold's truly excellent "Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus" for more about this masterpiece that occupies Plato's 4th tetralogy (on the soul): Symposium, Phaedrus, Republic, Phaedo.
— Jan 14, 2022 09:49PM
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