Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

di Jill Gordon (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Plato's 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 'erotic dialogues' and demonstrates that Plato's 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.

• Autore: Jill Gordon
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 254 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 160 mm
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9781107024113

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