Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love

ISBN-13: 9780198267669 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 264 str.

Catherine Osborne

Opis

This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics,, and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on self-interest. In this way, she restores the place of erotic love as a Christian motif, and unravels some longstanding confusions in philosophical discussions of love.

Recenzje

Osborne's book is a useful contribution to the cross-disciplinary study of concepts of love in both ancient and medieval thought, and may profitably be read by philosophers, theologians, and historians.