Abstract
This paper is an attempt of the reflection of Plato's effort of solving the crisis of the polis through the educational project called philosophy. The "second voyage" is a term from sailors' vocabulary.
It is the time when favorable winds do not blow anymore and in order to continue in the voyage, it is necessary to lean into the oars. Thus, on the road of thinking, it is not possible to rely on the methods and rationale of pre-Socratics Physicists anymore, which have no meaning in the windless conditions.
Instead of the sails it is necessary to discover and to tense up not the forces of nature but the forces of one's own. For Plato the most characteristic force is ψυχή, whose discovery in the thinking keeps on sailing in the point where the physicists ended up - the thinking becomes metaphysical.
But since for Plato the ψυχή is not something entirely completed, it is necessary to ennoble it (ψυχή) and to care for it, educate it. In this sense it's advisable to ask: How much is metaphysics the metaphysics of education and mainly, the sailing which wrecked.