The Poverty Of Eros In Plato S Symposium

Author : Lorelle D. Lamascus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474213820

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The Poverty of Eros in Plato’s Symposium by Lorelle D. Lamascus Pdf

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.

Author : Lorelle D. Lamascus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474279147

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The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium by Lorelle D. Lamascus Pdf

"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.

Author : Lorelle D. Lamascus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474213813

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The Poverty of Eros in Plato’s Symposium by Lorelle D. Lamascus Pdf

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.

Author : Jamey Hecht
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028564479

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Plato's Symposium by Jamey Hecht Pdf

An accessible introduction to some of the most important ideas developed in Platos Symposium.

Author : Emily Katherine Glass
Publisher : Ghoshal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798869083128

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Poverty, Resources, and Shame in Philosophical Situation by Emily Katherine Glass Pdf

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

Author : Steven L. Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:52021911

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Eros by Steven L. Goldman Pdf

Author : Reginald Edgar Allen,University of St. Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:628211945

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The Doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium by Reginald Edgar Allen,University of St. Andrews Pdf

Author : Steven Berg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438430195

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Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment by Steven Berg Pdf

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.

Author : James M. Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Love
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111880782

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Eros, Wisdom, and Silence by James M. Rhodes Pdf

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.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gods
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113460484

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The Symposium by Plato Pdf

Excerpt: ...sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's 'uses base' for the sake of money; but this is not honourable. And on the same principle he who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler. Thus noble in every case is the acceptance of another for the sake of virtue. This is that love which is the love of the heavenly godess, and is heavenly, and of great price to individuals and cities, making the lover and the beloved alike eager in the work of their own improvement. But all other loves are the offspring of the other, who is the common goddess. To you, Phaedrus, I offer this my contribution in praise of love, which is as good as I could make extempore. Pausanias came to a pause

Author : Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:51229147

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Eros and Philosophy in Plato's Symposium by Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield Pdf

Author : Plato,Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226042756

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Plato's Symposium by Plato,Allan Bloom Pdf

Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.

Author : Frisbee Sheffield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Robert Lloyd Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004388190

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The Hymn to Eros by Robert Lloyd Mitchell Pdf

This book represents nothing more than an attempt to read the Symposium in its entirety: to read it deeply, carefully and thoughtfully. It is the story of the rise and fall of Hellenic culture and it is also an account of living impulsion that constitutes human life itself: the complex interplay of two opposing sides seeking wholeness and finding it, ultimately, an intensely problematic fulfillment. An essential element in hearing this story turns out to be the apprehension of the way in which it resists "doctrine"óand so provides the most effective possible introduction to "philosophy."

Author : Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791475832

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Erotic Wisdom by Gary Alan Scott,William A. Welton Pdf

A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues.