Plato's erotic world : from cosmic origins to human death / Jill Gordon.
By: Gordon, Jill.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: ix, 243 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781107024113 (hardback).Subject(s): Plato | Love | Erotica -- Philosophy | Philosophy, Ancient | PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & ClassicalDDC classification: 184 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary | 184 Gor 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Cosmos; 2. Questioning; 3. Courage; 4. Matchmaking; 5. Self-knowledge; 6. Memory.
"This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato's writing, arguing that he sees the world as erotic from cosmic origins to human death"--
"Plato,♯s̥ entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations ,♯ T︡imaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo ,♯ d︡emonstrate 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 ,♯e͠rotic dialogues,♯ a̮nd demonstrates that Plato,♯s̥ 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"--
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