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

• Autore: Sheffield Frisbee C. C (Frisbee Candida Cheyenne)
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 170; 184
• Soggetto topico: Ethics, Ancient; Love
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Plato's Symposium
• ISBN: 0-19-956781-6; 1-281-15430-X; 9786611154301; 0-19-153682-2; 1-4356-1898-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996217846503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford classical monographs.