Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|       of existence. Whether the subject of the Dialogue is love
 2 Phaedr|   strictly confined to a single subject, but passes from one to
 3 Phaedr|        the first relates to the subject, the second to the date
 4 Phaedr|      dialogue requires a single subject. But the conception of unity
 5 Phaedr|         connected with the main subject.~Thus the comparison of
 6 Phaedr|      which Plato speaks, is the subject, not of poetry or fiction,
 7 Phaedr|       rhetoric; nothing on that subject is to be found in the endless
 8 Phaedr|   forgotten in relation to this subject. In the endless maze of
 9 Phaedr|       unconnected with the main subject of the Dialogue, may seem
10 Phaedr| apparently, to mark a change of subject, and also, like several
11 Phaedr|         the place of the aim or subject of the book. He had no sense
12 Phaedr|       spoken better on the same subject.~SOCRATES: Well, but are
13 Phaedr|   omitted no topic of which the subject rightly allowed, and I do
14 Phaedr|       entirely new, on the same subject; and I, like the nine Archons,
15 Phaedr|         the commonplaces of the subject which must come in (for
16 Phaedr|       defined the nature of the subject. Keeping the definition
17 Phaedr|        philosopher alone is not subject to judgment (krisis), for
18 Phaedr|       of the true nature of any subject, how can he detect the greater
19 Phaedr|       and only way in which any subject can be set forth or treated