Epilogue

Socrates asked Phaedrus the seemingly innocuous question, ‘Where do you hail

from, Phaedrus, and where are you bound?’ (Plato 1956, 3). Wiley hunter of gnostic

truths, Socrates’s question opened a path of inquiry that took into its scope not only

the strapping youth’s peripatetic destination, but particularly his whole life. More mod-

estly, there are two issues to consider presently that help us see where we hail from

and where we might be bound. The first one concerns eclecticism and heterogeneity,

while the second deals with the extraordinary.