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Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition

Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition

Corrigan, Kevin

Paperback

Series: Veritas, Book 26

PhilosophyReligion General

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 153264549X
ISBN13: 9781532645495
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Aug 3 2018
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato's Symposium (from the Greater and Lesser Mysteries of Diotima-Socrates' speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary experience or opposed to loving individuals for their own sakes, this book argues that Plato dramatizes the ambiguities of ordinary experience, confronts the possibility of failure, and bequeaths erotic models for the loving of individuals to later thought. Finally, it examines the Platonic-Aristotelian heritage on the Divine to discover whether God can love us back, and situates the dramatic development of this legacy in Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, and Dionysius the Areopagite.

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