Plato's Symposium

The Ethics of Desire
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-928677-5
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs

Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances
of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheffield, Frisbee C. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge.