Another View of the Hospital Through The Grimy Windows Of A Cobb Lecture Hall Classroom.

…[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ discovery of why the dialectic is so important to the Philosophy Professor, and the key fact that it is a “fulcrum word.” Then continues:]
…“Phædrus guessed that Aristotle’s diminution of dialectic, from Plato’s sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato. Since the Professor of Philosophy didn’t know what Phædrus’ "position" was, this was what was making him edgy. He might be afraid that Phædrus the Platonist was going to jump him. If so, he certainly had nothing to worry about. Phædrus wasn’t insulted that dialectic had been brought down to the level of rhetoric. He was outraged that rhetoric had been brought down to the level of dialectic. Such was the confusion at the time. .. The person to clear all this up, of course, was Plato, and fortunately he was the next to appear at the round table with the crack running across the middle in the dim dreary room across from the hospital building in South Chicago.” (U. Chicago. Cont .Next)

Cobb Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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