Name: Socrates' Daimonic art
SKU: 48589812
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Author: Belfiore, Elizabeth S.
ISBN: 9781316628874

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Author

Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

324

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.7 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781316628874

Synopsis "Socrates' Daimonic art "

Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.

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