Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good
This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato's Symposium (from the Greater and Lesser Mysteries of Diotima-Socrates' speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5326-4549-5
- EAN: 9781532645495
- Produktnummer: 28270439
- Verlag: Cascade Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 259 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 259
Über den Autor
Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of Gregory and Evagrius: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (2009); Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (2017); Plotinus, Ennead VI 8: On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One (2017, with John D. Turner).
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