How,does this philosophical employment of language both rely on and transform the mythical thinking of Socrates’ friends?

1. In response to Parmenides’ philosophy, Plato has the character of Socrates invest in the metaphysical potential of human language. Socrates shows how human language can be employed in a dialectical process that provokes aporias and, by thinking through these challenging aporias, seeks a deeper level of truth. With explicit reference to examples in the text of the Phaedo, describe this threefold process of dialectic, aporia, and truth-seeking that is proper to philosophical language. How,does this philosophical employment of language both rely on and transform the mythical thinking of Socrates’ friends?
2. In our study of the Phaedo, we identified two instances in which the philosophical life comes under attack. We called these ‘the enemies of reason’. With explicit reference to the text of the Phaedo, identify and discuss these two enemies of reason. Why is the latter enemy more dangerous and difficult to overcome?
3. In the Phaedo, Socrates makes a hypothesis: there is, as Parmenides said, a special relationship between knowledge and Being and, in order to understand this special relationship, you must assume the existence of a special class of beings called ideas or forms. With explicit reference to the text of the Phaedo, discuss the nature of these ideas orforms. Why does Socrates think it is reasonable to posit them? Where does he discover them? How do they help overcome the challenges set to metaphysics by Parmenides?

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