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Symposia

Name: Symposia
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04700608
Price: 38.27 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Louis A. Ruprecht
ISBN: 9780791442647

Plato, the Erotic and Moral Value

Louis A. Ruprecht

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04700608

Publishers State University of New York Press, August 1999

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Socrates was wise, because he knew that he did not know anything; this has long been the prevailing wisdom of the Socratic-Platonic tradition. In Plato's so-called "Middle Period" -- spanning dialogues such as Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus -- Socrates consistently claims to have knowledge in one area: the erotic. This book argues that the underlining of erotic matters -- in what it refers to as Plato's "Erotic Period" -- marks the most significant and dramatic moment in Plato's career. Plato's attention to the erotic in this period calls for a fundamental reassessment of many of the most important Platonic ideas: his complicated quarrel with poetry, his dubious doctrine of forms, his alleged hostility to the body and embodiment. In the Erotic Period, Plato's views are much richer, and infinitely more complex, than the many caricatures of his thought allow.