...As Plato shows most lucidly, Eros both arises out of the opposition of things and is also the force that brings things together. But alongside the sociable Eros, there is also the force of quarrelsome discord. In human beings, Eros is manifested through the division into male and female, a division...

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...This chapter explores the passionate, productive, and grasping eros that the Republic presents as a condition not only of the overreaching characteristic of tyranny and fifth-century Athenian imperial democracy alike, but also of philosophy. It argues that even as the Republic proliferates...

... and events with glamour and triviality. Eros and thanatos, the erotic life and the solemnity of death, are two of the great forces of the human condition that have particularly suffered glamorization and trivialization. information ambiguities of measuring message...

... and the role of eros in shaping that understanding. This discussion culminates in the transformation of a democracy, which values but does not understand freedom, into tyranny. This transformation allows Socrates both to make clear the actual danger confronting a democracy (and hence the need for a genuinely...

... friendship and the self, happiness, justice, eros, and philosophy. friendship philia idea of the good Lysis Plato nature phusis ambiguity of philosopher the courage of politikē politics or political science as architectonic reason desiring truth philosopher's devotion to human good the mind nous...

... a restrained idea of eros or love, which blended with his Platonic idealism. Not always a consistent thinker, he yet introduced many to a more distant treatment of the divine and its connection to humanity in what he called the Over-Soul. Emerson was probably not a thorough-going mystic but yet theorized...

... that Humanists simply transposed Plato and Platonic eros into a strictly heterosexual context and transformed male-male love into male-female love or into male-male friendship, this book argues that recurring traces of same-sex sexuality imply a complicated and recurring process of “setting Plato straight...

... justice injustice fictions eternity self-sufficiency St. Peter's Island natural freedom eros The first three Walks of the Reveries called for particularly intensive examination because each in some way constitutes a beginning. The First Walk is the beginning of the book and the beginning...

... should be no surprise to anyone, and in Thom Gunn's poems they become dual aspects of eros: on the one hand, drugs and sex can open us up to vistas of human freedoms and discoveries; and on the other, they can lead to darker recognitions about the world and ourselves. Gunn's poems explore both aspects...

... prior to their life in communities. These Gestalten include number, time, thought, Eros, the cosmological manifestation of the political that has its start in the body, the political effort to make all power a civilizing power, and the self-perception of human beings as “subjects...

... of life, as exhibited by his account of erôs and his portrayal of Socrates. He thereby showcases what it would mean to place care at the center of one’s understanding of oneself as a moral agent. care caring caregiving Plato politics therapeuein utopia s Socrates Bloom Allan Strauss Leo epimeleia...

...In his “Encomium of Helen,” Gorgias unapologetically advocates for persuasion as a form of compulsion. Persuasion, through artful deception, proves to be an irresistible power. He pairs it with Eros, as another force that compels assent. Where Gorgias delights in this power, others object...

...The frame shows two occasions, days apart, when men uninterested in philosophy inquire about Socrates and a drinking party during which he discussed eros with Alcibiades and others. This setting locates the frame at the time of Socrates’ trial. The party, some seventeen years earlier, saw leading...

... attraction to National Socialism. For the author, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness, and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world—a process that continues to engage artists, writers...

... affect eros I want to return to Pygmalion and his woman-statue. I want to come back to his fantasy, his tactile fantasy, in which she awakens at his touch, in which she occupies an uncertain space between object and subject, between Pygmalion’s mind and her physical autonomy, between...

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... of the Kallipolis’s policies and practices for channeling eros to beneficial political ends. For Socrates, it is imperative that the founders of this theoretical city constitute guardians in a way that eliminates any conflict between private interest and public interest in the guardian class. This elimination...

..., one that is based in sameness. They see Plato’s discussion of Eros in the Phaedrus as an important theorizing of a non-aggressive love based in sameness. Plato, however, complicates this account of sameness by demonstrating that sameness is inescapably linked to difference, and that rhetoric, properly...