Description
| Product ID: | 9780199567812 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Title: | Plato's Symposium |
| Subtitle: | The Ethics of Desire |
| Authors: | Author: Frisbee Sheffield |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-04-30 |
