Plato's erotic world : from cosmic origins to human death / Jill Gordon.

Plato's erotic world : from cosmic origins to human death / Jill Gordon.

9781107024113 (hardback)
1107024110 (hardback)

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

English

ix, 243 p. ; 23 cm.

40021346772

184 G663p 2012

(OCoLC)761482120
(OCoLC)761482120

"Plato,♯s̥ entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations ,♯ Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo ,♯ demonstrate that eros lies at the root of the human condition and that properly guided eros is the essence of a life well lived. This book presents a holistic vision of eros, beginning with the presence of eros at the origin of the cosmos and the human soul, surveying four types of human self-cultivation aimed at good guidance of eros, and concluding with human death as a return to our origins. The book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the ,♯e︢rotic dialogues,♯ ̮and demonstrates that Plato,♯s̥ world is erotic from beginning to end: the human soul is primordially erotic and the well cultivated erotic soul can best remember and return to its origins, its lifelong erotic desire"-- Provided by publisher.
"This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato's writing, arguing that he sees the world as erotic from cosmic origins to human death"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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