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Plato's Erotic World - 9781107024113

Un libro in lingua di Jill Gordon edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2012

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"Plato,Äôs entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations ,Äì Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo ,Äì 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 ,Äúerotic dialogues,Äù and demonstrates that Plato,Äôsworld 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"--

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