Download or read book The Poverty of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Lorelle D. Lamascus and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium offers an innovative new approach towards Eros and the concept of Eros in the Symposium. Lorelle D. Lamascus argues that Plato's depiction of Eros as the child of Poverty (penia) and Resource (poros) is central to understanding the nature of love. Eros is traditionally seen as self-interested or acquisitive, but this book argues instead that Eros and reason are properly in accord with one another. The moral life and the philosophical life alike depend upon properly trained and directed Eros. Lamascus demonstrates that the presentation of the nature of Poverty is essential to the nature of Eros in the Symposium, doing this through in-depth discussion of the major twentieth century interpretations of Platonic Eros. The book shows that poverty provides an appropriate directing of Eros towards eternal and unchanging goods (and away from an age geared towards material items and wealth), and thus that Plato's mythical treatment of Eros in the Symposium lays the groundwork for understanding the soul's embrace of poverty as a way of living, loving, and knowing.
Download or read book The Poverty of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Lorelle D. Lamascus and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium offers an innovative new approach towards Eros and the concept of Eros in the Symposium. Lorelle D. Lamascus argues that Plato's depiction of Eros as the child of Poverty (penia) and Resource (poros) is central to understanding the nature of love. Eros is traditionally seen as self-interested or acquisitive, but this book argues instead that Eros and reason are properly in accord with one another. The moral life and the philosophical life alike depend upon properly trained and directed Eros. Lamascus demonstrates that the presentation of the nature of Poverty is essential to the nature of Eros in the Symposium, doing this through in-depth discussion of the major twentieth century interpretations of Platonic Eros. The book shows that poverty provides an appropriate directing of Eros towards eternal and unchanging goods (and away from an age geared towards material items and wealth), and thus that Plato's mythical treatment of Eros in the Symposium lays the groundwork for understanding the soul's embrace of poverty as a way of living, loving, and knowing."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Download or read book Plato s Symposium written by Jamey Hecht and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to some of the most important ideas developed in Platos Symposium.
Download or read book The Doctrine of Eros in Plato s Symposium and Phaedrus written by Carole Louise Pence and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Contrivance of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Charles E. Salman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato s Symposium written by Frisbee Sheffield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.
Download or read book Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment written by Steven Berg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.
Download or read book The Dialectic of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Robert Austin Markus and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty Resources and Shame in Philosophical Situation written by Emily Katherine Glass and published by Ghoshal. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Symposium is one of his most celebrated dialogues--a dialogue so eventful, with such memorable characters, that it has received significant scholarly attention. Perhaps precisely on account of the Symposium's many memorable characters, however. Apollodorus and Aristodemus, two characters who contribute the Symposium's narrative frame, have mostly been forgotten. I call for new attention to these two characters, arguing that together with the more famous Alcibiades, they jointly dramatize a shared problem to which Socrates is actually attempting to offer a kind of solution--a therapy--when he gives his speech in praise of Love. Specifically, these three characters experience misplaced shame that is obstructing their sincere and fruitful participation in the philosophic life. Socrates teaches that Eros himself is in-between poverty (penia) and resource (poros), and that this is true of the philosopher, as well. Thus, a philosopher must leam to coexist with both poverty and resource. It is their failure to cope with both that has inspired obstructive shame in these characters. Unfortunately, a sad twist to Socrates attempted therapy is that although Apollodorus and Aristodemus are apparently
Download or read book Plato on Love written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes the following sections: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Ascent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love.
Download or read book The Hymn to Eros written by Robert Lloyd Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Feast of Eros written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern adaptation of Plato's Συμπόσιον (Symposium), a group of distinguished Athenians gather at a feast and take turns delivering profound and playful speeches in praise of love (eros). Over the course of the party, they explore questions of love, beauty, and truth, as each speech builds on and challenges the ideas of the last. Socrates delivers the climactic speech, invoking the teachings of the wise woman Diotima to describe the soul's journey from physical attraction to the contemplation of eternal Forms. Alcibiades' dramatic entrance provides a provocative counterpoint, grounding the philosophical discussions in personal experience. Philosophical arguments blend with bawdy jokes and drunken antics to produce an enduring and entertaining meditation on the nature of love. This edition integrates Stephanus pagination for easy cross-referencing with other translations and the original Greek text.
Download or read book The Doctrine of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Reginald Edgar Allen and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of Eros in Plato s Symposium written by Hannah L. Finn and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eros and Philosophy in Plato s Symposium written by Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eros Wisdom and Silence written by James M. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a while one comes across a work that strikes one as the definitive word on the text it examines. This is such a work' - David Walsh. This substantial study presents an in-depth and meticulous study of Plato's treatment of love in Symposium, Phaedrus and the Seventh Letter.
