Jill Gordon: Plato's Erotic World

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Jill Gordon is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Colby College, Maine. She is the author of Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato's Dialogues (1999).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Cosmos; 2. Questioning; 3. Courage; 4. Matchmaking; 5. Self-knowledge; 6. Memory.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107423572
ISBN-10:	1107423570
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gordon, Jill
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Jill Gordon
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.07.2014
Gewicht:	0,418 kg