Plato's Symposium

The Ethics of Desire
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956781-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The endoxa: eros and the good life

- 2: Socrates' speech: the nature of eros

- 3: Socrates' speech: the aims of eros

- 4: Socrates' speech: the activity of eros

- 5: Socrates' speech: concern for others

- 6: `Nothing to do with human affairs?' Alcibiades' response to Socrates

- 7: Shadow lovers

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge.