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Record Nr.

UNISA996217846503316

Autore

Sheffield Frisbee C. C (Frisbee Candida Cheyenne)

Titolo

Plato's Symposium [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of desire / / Frisbee C.C. Sheffield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-956781-6

1-281-15430-X

9786611154301

0-19-153682-2

1-4356-1898-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

170

184

Soggetti

Ethics, Ancient

Love

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-248) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Erōs and the good life -- Socrates' speech : The nature of Erōs -- Socrates' speech : The aim of Erōs -- Socrates' speech : The activity of Erōs -- Socrates' speech : Concern for others? -- 'Nothing to do with human affairs?' : Alcibiades' response to Socrates -- Shadow lovers : the symposiasts and Socrates.

Sommario/riassunto

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 aworthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book