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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the themes of communication and self-discovery in both works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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they cannot do so by writing. Also, since human beings possess the capacity for reason, which members of the animal kingdom are believed to lack, they can enrich their
lives through reflection or self-discovery. Some 400 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, Plato - following in the footsteps of his teacher/mentor, Socrates - pursued a philosophy that
concentrated on communication by way of written dialogues and speculated on how man could, through thought and contemplation, discover all that was knowable about the cosmos. In one of
his last writings, Phaedrus, he sought answers to some of lifes most perplexing questions. More than 2,000 year later, German-born director Wim Wenders pondered the same subjects in his
deeply moving film, Wings of Desire (German title Der Himmel uber Berlin). Phaedrus is a dialogue between the title character and Socrates that covers a variety of subjects, including homosexual
love and the power of persuasive speaking. Here, Socrates argues the position that rhetoric or speech is the superior form of communication, surpassing anything else including writing. Referring
to an Egyptian myth about an encounter between the god Theuth and King Thamus: The story is that in the region of Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the
old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name being Theuth... Now the king of the whole country at that time
was Thamus... On each art, we are told, Thamus had plenty of views both for and against; it would take too long to give them in detail. But when it
came to writing Theuth said, Here, O king, is a branch of learning that will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their memories; my discovery provides a recipe
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