Socrates' Daimonic Art: Love for Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues

ISBN-13: 9781316628874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 324 str.

Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Opis

A new approach to Plato's characterization of Socrates, through analysis of eros and philosophy in four dialogues on love and friendship.

Spis treści

Introduction: overview of the Erotic Dialogues; Part I. Socrates and Two Young Men: 1. 'Your love and mine': Eros and self-knowledge in Alcibiades I; 2. 'In love with acquiring friends': Socrates in the Lysis; Part II. Eros and Hybris in the Symposium: Introduction to Part II: the narrators of the Symposium; 3. In praise of Eros: the speeches in the Symposium; 4. 'You are hubristic': Socrates, Alcibiades and Agathon; Part III. Love and Friendship in the Phaedrus: Introduction to Part III: the erotic art in the Symposium and Phaedrus; 5. The lover's friendship; 6. The lovers' dance: charioteer and horses; Conclusion.