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Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis
- Title
- Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis / Mary P. Nichols.
- Author
- Nichols, Mary P.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 229 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The problem of Socrates : Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Kierkegaard : Socrates vs. the God -- Nietzsche : call for an artistic Socrates -- Plato's Socrates -- Love, generation, and political community (the Symposium) -- The prologue -- Phaedrus' praise of nobility -- Pausanias' praise of law -- Eryximachus' praise of art -- Aristophanic comedy -- Tragic victory -- Socrates' turn -- Socrates' prophetess and the daemonic -- Love as generative -- Alcibiades' dramatic entrance -- Alcibiades' images of Socrates -- Alcibiades' praise of Socrates' virtues -- Aftermath -- The incompleteness of the Symposium -- Self-knowledge, love, and rhetoric (Plato's Phaedrus) -- The setting -- Non-lovers (Lysias' speech and Socrates' first speech) -- Souls and their fall -- Lovers and their ascent -- Prayer to love -- Contemporary rhetoric and politics -- A genuine art of rhetoric -- Writing -- Prayer to Pan -- Who is a friend? (the Lysis) -- Joining the group -- Getting acquainted -- Seeking a friend -- Are friends the ones loving, the ones loved, or both? -- Are likes friends? -- Are unlikes friends? -- Are those who are neither good nor bad friends to the good? -- Are the kindred friends? -- Who might friends be? -- Friendly communities -- Socratic philosophizing -- Socrates' youthful search for cause -- Socrates' second sailing and the ideas -- Piety, poetry, and friendship.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1242
- ISBN
- 9780521899734 (hardback)
- 0521899737 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2008018058
- OCLC
- 226984610
- Author
- Nichols, Mary P.
- Title
- Socrates on friendship and community : reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis / Mary P. Nichols.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1242