Socrates In Love

Author : Armand D’Angour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408883907

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Socrates in Love by Armand D’Angour Pdf

An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and death. Our conception of Socrates has relied upon Plato and Xenophon – men who met him when he was in his fifties and a well-known figure in war-torn Athens. There is mystery at the heart of Socrates' story: what turned the young Socrates into a philosopher? What drove him to pursue with such persistence, at the cost of social acceptance and ultimately of his life, a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of existence? In this revisionist biography, Armand D'Angour draws on neglected sources to explore the passions and motivations of young Socrates, showing how love transformed him into the philosopher he was to become. What emerges is the figure of Socrates as never previously portrayed: a heroic warrior, an athletic wrestler and dancer – and a passionate lover. Socrates in Love sheds new light on the formative journey of the philosopher, finally revealing the identity of the woman who Socrates claimed inspired him to develop ideas that have captivated thinkers for 2,500 years.

Author : Kyoichi Katayama
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1421513927

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Socrates In Love (Novel-Paperback) by Kyoichi Katayama Pdf

A bittersweet journey of young love, heartbreaking loss, and enduring devotion.

Author : Roy Brand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231160445

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LoveKnowledge by Roy Brand Pdf

Explores the key role of passion, desire and love in the development of western philosophy, in a book that looks at such philosophers as Socrates, Rousseau, Nietzsche and more.

Author : Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107378230

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Socrates' Daimonic Art by Elizabeth S. Belfiore Pdf

Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393341218

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Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart by Christopher Phillips Pdf

“[Phillips takes] philosophy out of the ivory tower and into the street.”—Los Angeles Times Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we’re all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. That is, love not defined only as eros, or erotic love, but in all its classical varieties. Love of neighbor, love of country, love of God, love of life, and love of wisdom—each is clarified and invigorated in Phillips’s Socratic dialogues with people from all walks of life and from all over the world.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840590

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Plato on Love by Plato Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101545195

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Socrates by Paul Johnson Pdf

A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy. Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It is through the story of his life that we can fully grasp his powerful actions and ideas. In his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the fifth century b.c., and how what this man thought still shapes the way we decide how to act, and how we fathom the notion of body and soul. Johnson provides a compelling picture of the city and people Socrates reciprocally delighted in, as well as many enlightening and intimate analyses of specific aspects of his personality. Enchantingly portraying "the sheer power of Socrates's mind, and its unique combination of steel, subtlety, and frivolity," Paul Johnson captures the vast and intriguing life of a man who did nothing less than supply the basic apparatus of the human mind.

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536823

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Plato's Symposium by Frisbee Sheffield Pdf

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.

Author : Alain Badiou,Nicolas Truong
Publisher : New Press/ORIM
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781595588890

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In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou,Nicolas Truong Pdf

The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless

Author : Armand D'Angour
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500616

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The Greeks and the New by Armand D'Angour Pdf

The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to relating this to the forces of traditionalism and conservatism which were also present across all the various societies within ancient Greece. What inspired the Greeks to embark on their unique and enduring innovations? How did they think and feel about the new? This book represents the first serious attempt to address these issues, and deals with the phenomenon across all periods and areas of classical Greek history and thought. Each chapter concentrates on a different area of culture or thought, while the book as a whole argues that much of the impulse towards innovation came from the life of the polis which provided its setting.

Author : Alexander George
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PSU:000061060944

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What Would Socrates Say? by Alexander George Pdf

Draws on questions from the website AskPhilosophers.org to examine profound, paradoxical, playful, and classic questions many people have about a wide range of topics.

Author : Kyoichi Katayama
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1421501996

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Socrates In Love (Manga) by Kyoichi Katayama Pdf

Romance blossoms between an average high school guy and a beautiful girl, but the romance takes a bitter turn when the girl falls ill with leukemia.

Author : Greg Scorzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798543392379

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Post-Socratic Dialogues: Love by Greg Scorzo Pdf

ROMANCE Joe and Janet are a young couple who are deeply in love with each other. The assumption that their relationship is healthy is shattered when Janet is diagnosed as a psychopath. Whilst the diagnosis seems accurate, it doesn't undermine the fact that Joe is in an unusually happy relationship with his soulmate. But Joe is now scared of Janet. PROCREATION Eve and Alice are faced with the decision about whether or not to have a baby when Alice suddenly gets extremely broody. Eve has never wanted children, but Alice is convinced her desire to be childfree is just internalised homophobia. SEX A Los Angeles porn star called Davis adores her 14-year-old son Max. Max is quite sensitive and intellectually gifted. The problem is he doesn't approve of his mother's porn career. Even worse, that disapproval could be stemming from Max's own repressed Oedipal desires. POST-SOCRATIC DIALOGUES: LOVE comprises a set of dialogues in the form of real-time conversations. It is neither traditional fiction nor traditional academic philosophy, even though it is written by a philosopher. This book grapples with how love resists knowledge about love, because we master love by doing it, rather than theorising about it. Yet there is a paradox: bad ideas about love can make us do it much worse. In the domain of love, ideas are relevant, even if comprehensive knowledge is impossible. Reading this book, you may feel as though you are listening in on a series of intensely private conversations. If you heard any of these conversations in real life, you might feel as though you were being privy to a rather juicy bit of gossip. Or you might call the police. You might shed a tear. You might even masturbate (and then read some more traditional philosophy). That is why, in some ways, this book is closer to a horror movie than a romance novel. "Greg Scorzo should come with a warning. This diabolical thinker has produced something dangerous, unsettling and unpleasant. Renewing a literary approach to philosophy befitting the likes of Plato, Rousseau, Sartre, Murdoch or Badiou, Scorzo rattles our prejudices and shatters our assumptions. In this respect, Scorzo is a 'true' philosopher." - BRADLEY TUCK Founder, Editor, facilitator Exploding Appendix www.explodingappendix.com

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Love
ISBN : OCLC:1036865783

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Socrates in Love by Christopher Phillips Pdf

Author : Kyoichi Katayama
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1417695048

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Socrates in Love 1 by Kyoichi Katayama Pdf

Romance blossoms between an average high school guy and a beautiful girl, but the romance takes a bitter turn when the girl falls ill with leukemia.