Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human DeathCambridge University Press, 13 aug 2012 - 243 pagina's Plato's entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations - Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo - demonstrate that eros lies at the root of the human condition and that properly guided eros is the essence of a life well lived. This book presents a holistic vision of eros, beginning with the presence of eros at the origin of the cosmos and the human soul, surveying four types of human self-cultivation aimed at good guidance of eros, and concluding with human death as a return to our origins. The book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the "erotic dialogues" and demonstrates that Plato's world is erotic from beginning to end: the human soul is primordially erotic and the well cultivated erotic soul can best remember and return to its origins, its lifelong erotic desire. |
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Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death Jill Gordon Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2014 |
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afterlife Alcibiades alienation andreia aporia argues argument aspects Athenian beauty beloved body Cebes Chapter charioteer claims connection conversation Cornford courage Cratylus created death definition demiurge depicted describes dialectic dialogue’s difficult Diotima discourse discussion divine embodied engage epithumia eros erotic desire erotic dialogues etymology explicitly fear figure final find first forms Greek guidance guides Hackforth heroes Hesiod horse human soul Ibycus immortal interlocutors knowledge Kori lead lesser gods logoi logos logue Lysis matchmaking Meno’s metaphor metaphysical mortal myth noetic noetic objects noetic origins nostos Odysseus one’s Parmenides passage Peitho Pericles Phaedo Phaedrus philosophical Plato’s world pre-life Protagoras questions reason recollection reference reflecting relationship Republic role section titled seduction self-knowledge senses significant Simmias Socrates tells soul’s specifically speech spiritedness Symposium Theaetetus Theaetetus’s Theodorus Theodorus’s things Timaeus Timaeus’s tion traditional translation true lover understanding world soul young Zeno