Plato's Symposium : the ethics of desire /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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, analyzing 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-248) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191536823 0191536822 9780191713194 0191713198 0199567816 9780199567812 9786611154301 6611154302 |