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Plato's Symposium

Plato's Symposium The Ethics of Desire - Oxford Classical Monographs

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199567812
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 184
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 356g
Height: 216mm
Width: 141mm
Spine width: 16mm