Plato's Phaedrus

The following are some main points that were made during the dialogue:
-Socrates is a lover of knowledge and believes that he can learn more in the city from his teachers than learn outside the city amongst trees. Phaedrus asks Socrates to join him for a conversation.
-Once the two are settled by a tree, Phaedrus begins to discuss the difference between the lover and the non-lover.
- They come with the question of whether the lover or non–lover is to be preferred. Socrates then explains that there are two principles in people, rational desire and irrational and the irrational is the power of love.
- Socrates then harshly describes the lover a one who takes charge of the relationship and wants the beloved to become more obedient. He also says that the lover will take away things that the beloved cares about, like family, friends and kinsmen. Socrates then decribes the lover of having all the  "advantages in which the lover is accused of being deficient."
- Socrates describes their speeches as a spit in the face to the god of love. "Our ideas of love were taken from some haunt of sailors to which good manners were unknown."
- The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic, initiatory, poetic, erotic. "In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift”
- Oratory is the art of enchanting the soul, and the orator must learn the differences of human souls by reflection and experience.
- A person must have knowledge and be able to define the topics of what he is talking about, and to discern the natures of the people he is talking to.
- Most people believe that love is a desire, and we know also that non–lovers desire the good and the beautiful.