Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love

Oxford University Press (1994)
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This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics,, and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on self-interest. In this way, she restores the place of erotic love as a Christian motif, and unravels some longstanding confusions in philosophical discussions of love.

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Eros, the Socratic Spirit: Inside and Outside the Symposium

The contrast between Plotinus and Plato shows us something about what is important in the account of love in the Symposium. Diotima had diverted our attention from an explanation of love in terms of the beauty of the object to an explanation in terms of the lover. However, what Eros accoun... see more

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Catherine Joanna Rowett
University of East Anglia

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Colloquium 5: Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered1.Jörg Hardy - 2010 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 25 (1):149-191.
The Eros of Counter Education.Pinhas Luzon - 2016 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 50 (3):461-473.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.Michael Harrington & Kevin Corrigan - 2004 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Erotic Virtue.Lauren Ware - 2015 - Res Philosophica 92 (4):915-935.

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