The current article offers a new reading of Socrates’ prayer to Pan in Plato’s Phaedrus. By means of a comprehensive approach, the paper shows that the prayer not only gathers together the most relevant topics dealt with during the conversation but it also exhorts us to engage in the way of life depicted by Socrates’ character, namely that of philosophy, which can be clearly distinguished from that of traditional rhetoric. To this extent, eros and logos, two elements closely related to Pan, show themselves to be of primary relevance. Besides these issues, we discuss the puzzling nature of the prayer, defending the idea that it was authored with the same writing method as the full dialogue. Socrates’ psychagogic attempt with Phaedrus is analogous to Plato’s didactic effort to engage the reader in philosophy: instead of supplying a straight message which must be learnt by heart by Phaedrus or the reader, both Socrates and Plato offer friendly logoi intended to promote active research in the receivers.

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柏拉图《斐德罗篇》（279b8-c3）的祈祷：对行使哲学美德的劝勉

当前文章提供了对苏格拉底在柏拉图的《斐德罗篇》中对潘的祈祷的新解读。通过综合方法，该论文表明，祈祷不仅将谈话中处理的最相关的话题聚集在一起，而且还告诫我们从事苏格拉底性格所描绘的生活方式，即哲学的生活方式。可以明显地区别于传统的修辞。就此而言，与潘密切相关的两个元素爱神和徽标显示出它们的主要相关性。除了这些问题之外，我们还讨论了祈祷文令人费解的本质，捍卫了祈祷文是用与完整对话相同的写作方法创作的观点。苏格拉底对斐德罗的心理学尝试类似于柏拉图使读者参与哲学的教学努力：