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Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown

Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown

Geier, Alfred

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy, Book 3

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ISBN10: 1580460682
ISBN13: 9781580460682
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: May 29 2002
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
An attempt, by a close reading of three Platonic dialogues, the Symposium, Lysis, and the Phaedrus, to discover the true nature of the object of Eros and especially to understand the mystery of its birth.

This work is an attempt to understand the nature of the object of Eros in Plato's writings. In the first chapter certain considerations based on a passage in Plato's Symposium lead to a discovery and characterization of thenature of that object and several of its features. Then it is realized that the chief problem or mystery about the nature of the object of Eros is how it arises. The book then explores the Lysis and the Phaedrus, which both address how the object arises, in two different ways, the Socratic and the Platonic.

Alfred Geier is associate professor of religious and classical studies, University of Rochester.

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