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Socrates Daimonic Art Love for Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues 1st Edition by Elizabeth S Belfiore ISBN 1107007585 978-1107007581

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Socrates Daimonic Art Love for Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues First Paperback Edition Elizabeth S. Belfiore Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Elizabeth S. Belfiore

ISBN(s): 9781107007581, 9781316628874, 1107007585, 1316628876

Edition: First paperback edition

File Details: PDF, 2.53 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

SKU: EB-11648278 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Society Tag: Elizabeth S. Belfiore

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ISBN 10: 1107007585

ISBN 13: 978-1107007581

Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore

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.